Quotes About Freedom And Cages

#1. [Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

Michel De Montaigne

#2. In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

Marya Mannes

#3. I see the insurance issue, the coverage of people for healthcare in our country as a huge moral issue. The richest country in the world to have 47 million people without health insurance is ridiculous.

Benjamin Carson

#4. Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anxiety, it is open.

Andre Maurois

#5. Some canaries love their cages, they even call them home.

Marty Rubin

#6. Freedom and wildness, that which we were born into, is a grand mystery and miracle that creates a openness reserved not for barring us in but for keeping us out of cages. It is our ability to find the truth that has been a survival tool for our species both individually and corporately.

Leviak B. Kelly

#7. Freedom isn't a hope for those who live in a cage...

Eyden I.

#8. Let yourselves be led by the Holy Spirit, with freedom and, please, do not cage the Holy Spirit

Pope Francis

#9. After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled.

Sara Gruen

#10. Some accidental frequency in the siren had lit a gene like a flare in their rib cages, freeing them - for what greater freedom could there be than to forget your home?

Andrew Sean Greer

#11. Every intelligent person whose life has been passed in a slaveholding State, and who has carefully observed the character and capacity of the African race, will see that a general and sudden emancipation would be absolute ruin to the Negroes, as well as to the white population.

Roger B. Taney

#12. Why would anyone want to live in a cage when we are free persons? This is the point to make, when we can rattle cages it means we are behind bars and are not free.

Leviak B. Kelly

#13. Mosquitoes, how wonderful! No one puts them in cages or makes pets out of them.

Marty Rubin

#14. In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.

Nicanor Parra

#15. Human nature, for better or worse, always eventually comes to the fore again. And human nature likes and needs stories that are stories.

John C. Wright

#16. Sanity is to the mind, insanity is for the heart,
Docility is to the mind, wildness is to the heart,
Tamable is the mind, Untamable is the heart,
Freedom is to the mind, cages are for the heart.

Pushpa Rana

#17. A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

Henry Ward Beecher

#18. Some spiritually alert parents hold early-morning devotionals with their families in their homes. They have a hymn, prayer, and then read and discuss the Book of Mormon.

Ezra Taft Benson

#19. Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free ... It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators ... What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.

Scarlett Thomas

#20. Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!

Robert Anton Wilson

#21. Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.

Frank Miller

#22. Those ignoramuses who think that birds are happy in their cages know not a single thing about freedom!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#23. Humans are born free then put into cages, then convinced freedom is what being in a cage is, and what freedom is, is being in a cage.

Craig Stone

#24. Are you apathetic toward the saccharine goodness evangelized by sentimental, superstitious fanatics, but equally bored by the intellectuals who worship at the empty-headed shrine of scientific materialism?

Rob Brezsny

#25. The frost makes a flower,
the dew makes a star.

Sylvia Plath