Explore 'Confinement'-Themed Quotes & Sayings

It is the absence of bars that makes a beast free – but only the truth can make a man free.

Alan Keyes

I don’t want to be a prisoner in a palace, living in such a constricted way – too tight!

Dalai Lama

He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.

Khalil Gibran

Her mind is a bird that’s trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.

Lauren DeStefano

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Samuel Johnson

The world is a philosophical prison and Man is the philosophical prisoner.

Kedar Joshi

A bird in a cage is safe but God didn’t create birds for that.

Paulo Coelho

Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

William Blake

Without wilderness, the world’s a cage.

David R. Brower

A world without open country would be universal jail.

Edward Abbey

The strength of the genie comes from being in a bottle.

Richard Wilbur

Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.

Sheldon B. Kopp

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