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“Most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school, and in school only insofar as school, in a few rich countries, has become their place of confinement during an increasing part of their lives.”

People Country School Rich Acquire Confinement Rich Countries

Author:Ivan Illich

“Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.”

Art Artist Limits Asking Exhibitions Confinement Curator

Book:Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

“The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised - a fire that, at best, can be controlled for only a short time before it o'erleaps it's improvised confinements and spreads its flames far and wide.”

Humans States Human Beings Fire Institutions Spread Wide Flames Destructive Controlled Short Time Confinement

Author:Robert Higgs

“Even painless research is fascism, supremacism...”

Animal Research Animal Rights Fascism Confinement Painless Peta

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate”

World Mind Doe Made Grows Can Do Poor Fate Months Patient Busy Hopeless Prisoner Clothings Pondering Asylums Sewing Confinement

Book:The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)

Source: The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)

“Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with nothing to refresh us in our solitary confinement. So we play the old movies with their stale fears and their unrealistic hopes until we become bored enough to risk disarmament and engagement.”

Source: What to do when you're bored and blue

“All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling over with an anarchic joie de vivre. We glint when the wild light shines. The more suffocatingly enclosed we are - tamed by television, controlled by mortgages and bureaucracy - the louder our wild genes scream in aggression, anger and depression.”

Needs Humans Light Hate Television Creatures Shining Controlled Scream Genes Aggression Thrill Bureaucracy Mortgage Wildness Confinement Tamed Joie De Vivre Wild Creatures

Author:Jay Griffiths

“Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.”

Doe Sometimes Suffering Darkness Alive Sweet Confinement

Author:David Whyte

“I see Edward Snowden as someone who has chosen, at best, exile from the country he loves-with a serious risk of his assassination by agents of his government or life in prison (in solitary confinement)-to awaken us to the danger of our loss of democracy to a total-surveilla nce state”

Country States Government Loss Democracy Risk Danger Serious Prison Chosen Agents Solitary Exile Assassination Confinement Snowden Solitary Confinement

Author:Daniel Ellsberg

“I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the confinement facility).”

Use Today Names Starting Officials Feminine Mail Facility Request Confinement Pronouns Starting Today

Author:Chelsea Manning

“I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything.”

Mind Ends Play Dream Happens Found Aspect Prison Tricks Solitary Confinement Solitary Confinement Prison Life

Book:Long Walk To Freedom

Source: Long Walk To Freedom

“...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his enlargement, than to do, with greater cunning, what he did before with less.”

Made Use Common Greater Crime Observation Jail Cunning Imprisonment Confinement Enlargement

Book:The Works: Together With His Life, And Notes On His Life Of The Poets

Source: The Works: Together With His Life, And Notes On His Life Of The Poets

“Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.”

Men Prison Prisoner Solitary Confinement Solitary Confinement

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.”

Source: The Life and Writings of ...

“We would consider it cruel to confine a dog permanently in a kennel. Yet we visit zoos where hundreds of wild animals are kept permanently in the equivalent of a kennel.”

Animal Dog Cages Zoos Wild Animal Confinement

Book:Beyond the bars: the zoo dilemma

Source: Beyond the bars: the zoo dilemma

“There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary confinement.”

Would Be Study Mankind Benefits Educational Prisoner Solitary Observing Dolphins Captivity Confinement Solitary Confinement

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an opening in the wall. One day an ant came into his cell. The man contemplated it in fascination as it crawled around the room. He held it in the palm of his hand the better to observe it, gave it a grain or two, and kept it under his tin cup at night. One day it suddenly struck him that it had taken him ten long years of solitary confinement to open his eyes to the loveliness of an ant.”

“From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a box already built for us to fit inside. Our umbilical cord never seems to be severed; we only find new needs to fill. If we disconnected and severed our attachments, would we shatter our confinements and expand beyond our shell? Would the world look different? Would we recognize ourselves? Are we the box that we are inside, and to be authentically 'un-contained' would we still be able to exist? This is the irony of containment. As long as we don't push on the walls of our surroundings, we may never know how strong we really are.”

“There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules.”

Sports Clear Competition Auras Flux Confinement

Author:George Will

“Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric does not seek meaning through extension, it accepts the enigmas of confinement. It strives for a rapid unity of impression, an experience rendered in its wink of immediacy. And so too with the short short.”

Writing Kind Doe Fiction Accepting Unity Strive Impression Extensions Strife Rapids Enigma Confinement Immediacy

Author:Irving Howe

“Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain of training methods of wild animals in the circus, the aquatic and theatrical shows, leads to retaliation by the animals. Eventually they find the right time to strike out, and they will.”

Shows Eye Pain Animal Training Abuse Method Entertainment Strikes Brutal Right Time Circus Theatrical Wild Animal Confinement Retaliation Animal Abuse

Author:Tippi Hedren

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