Caged Quotes - Page 4

• I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in.

  Angelina Jolie

  Energy, Too Much, Rooms

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• He has tears in his eyes now. The sight is more than I can bear. He takes two steps away from me and then turns back like a caged animal. “Do you even love me?” he suddenly asks. He grips both of my shoulders. “I’ve said it to you before, and I still mean it. But I’ve never heard it from you.

  Marie Lu

  Eye, Mean, Animal

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• Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules and games which we call civilisation. They're often absurd and farcical, and sometimes they're tragic, yet we acknowledge that they are necessary.

  Peter Greenaway

  Games, Sometimes, Absurd

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• As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Hate, Animal, Government

  Charlie Chaplin, Kevin J. Hayes (2005). “Charlie Chaplin: Interviews”, p.121, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged animal alert for the slightest opening. In time, it will have its way; the dam, like the ancient cliffs, will be carried away piecemeal in the currents.

  Wendell Berry

  Animal, Men, Lakes

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• The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?... With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?

  Emma Goldman

  Heart, Space, Soul

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• The Gospel is like a caged lion; you don't have to defend it - just let it out of the cage.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lions, Cages

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• It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person.

  Jean Harris

  People, Watches, Would Be

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• I have read in books that we are called 'caged birds'. I cannot speak for others, but I had so much in this cage of mine that there was not room for it in the universe- at least that is what I then felt.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Book, Bird, Rooms

  Rabindranath Tagore (2014). “The Home and The World: Fiction, Autobiographical novel”, p.14, editionNEXT.com

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• The Zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. But there it was, I wanted to see an oyster-catcher and I was no better than the people who'd caged oyster-catchers for me to see.

  Russell Hoban

  Zoos, Freedom, Animal

  "The Turtle Diary".

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• Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, Bird, Savages

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1973). “Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future”, Penguin Classics

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• I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Running, Zoos, Sharks

  Wyndham Lewis (1967). “Blasting & Bombardiering”, p.12, Univ of California Press

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• In the invincible and indescribable squalor of Harlem ... I was tormented. I felt caged, like an animal. I wanted to escape. I felt if I did not get out I would slowly strangle.

  James A. Baldwin

  Animal, Harlem, Invincible

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• I felt caged by my childhood.

  Christina Aguilera

  Childhood, Felt

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We live like caged beasts waiting for the day to let the rage free.

  Tupac Shakur

  Reality, Waiting, Beast

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• With all our crime and all our immorality ... and about as much contentment and respose as a fresh-caged hyena, we go to tell the whole world: we are the only one with the right idea!

  Will Rogers

  Ideas, Contentment, Hyenas

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• The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can't come back, because caged lions don't mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you
  must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers.

  T. D. Jakes

  Running, Regret, Winning

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• Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

  Florence Ellinwood Allen

  Liberty, Generations, Next

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• I was asked by the National Institute of Health to be their scientific discussant on the effects of these drug [Ritalin] at a big conference they held. Beforehand, I reviewed all of the important literature on the issue. Even with experiments on animals. When they're given these drugs they stop playing; they stop being curious; they stop socializing; they stop trying to escape. We make good caged animals with these drugs. And we make good caged kids by knocking their spontaneity out of them. And, Michael, the other thing is that these drugs enforce obsessive behavior.

  Peter Breggin

  Kids, Animal, Issues

  "The Ritalin Racketeers and Their Chemical Lobotomies – Part I". Interview With Michael Savage, www.whale.to. March 29, 2000.

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• Tell me why the caged bird nutters against its prison bars, and I will tell you why the soul sickens of earthliness. The bird has wings, and wings were made to cleave the air, and soar in freedom in the sun. The soul is immortal it cannot feed upon husks.

  Randolph Sinks Foster

  Air, Wings, Bird

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• Coerced innocence is like an imprisoned lark,--open the door, and it is off forever. The bird that roams through the sky and the groves unrestrained knows how to dodge the hawk and protect itself; but the caged one, the moment it leaves its bars and bolts behind, is pounced upon by the fowler or the vulture.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Doors, Sky, Bird

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• Do anything but love; or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship; never let him know how dear he is; flit like a bird before him; lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower; but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected and perish in forgetfulness.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Love, Art, Flower

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• There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together.

  Iris Murdoch

  Solitude, Together

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.89, Penguin

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• New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with.

  Djuna Barnes

  New York, Men, Water

  Djuna Barnes (2016). “Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes”, p.100, Courier Dover Publications

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• "And when you had made sure of the poor little fool," said my aunt - "God forgive me that I should call her so, and she gone where YOU won't go in a hurry - because you had not done wrong enough to her and hers, you must begin to train her, must you? begin to break her, like a poor caged bird, and wear her deluded life away, in teaching her to sing YOUR notes?"

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Teaching, Aunt

  Charles Dickens (2009). “David Copperfield”, p.395, ReadHowYouWant.com

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