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  • How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation fought the Nazis, millions of people gave their lives against the Soviet Union's regime, didn't they? Because of what? Democracy. And what democracy meant. No torture, no camps, no detention forever or without trial, without charges. In solitary confinement. Those techniques which are not just alleged, they have actually been written about by the FBI. I don't think it's being far left - I hope that I'm wrong to consider that it's far left to uphold the rule of law.

    Father   Thinking   Law  
  • If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you

  • During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to stay calm and keep myself occupied. I spent hours working out how to break free. But trying to escape would have been instant suicide.

    Suicide   Work Out   Mind  
  • Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

    Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.341, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.42, Random House
  • I worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for years. Being a comic book artist is like sentencing yourself to life imprisonment at hard labor in solitary confinement. I don't think I'd do it again.

    Book   Artist   Thinking  
  • 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.

    Dream   Play   Mind  
    Nelson Mandela (2013). “Long Walk To Freedom”, p.264, Hachette UK
  • Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

    Cat   Pet   And Love  
  • Shouldn't the American leadership be addressing what is happening in America, with its domestic policies on racism, discrimination, illegal monitoring, solitary confinement, torture, Guantanamo Bay and any other social and political issues related to the American society not directly connected to Islam? American Muslims must speak out and be involved as well in international policies and, through their institutions, they should raise their voice. This is the way you serve the community.

    Voice   America   Issues  
    "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.
  • 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.

    "Marvel at wild animals -- from a distance" by Chris Palmer, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2010.
  • There's a big difference between being alone and being lonely. And I'm guessing that once you've discovered this distinction you can't go back to solitary confinement without serious emotional repercussions.

    Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.80, Sourcebooks, Inc.
  • Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.

  • The Holy Spirit showed me that when I put up walls to keep others out I also wall myself into solitary place of confinement.

    Wall   Spirit   Holy  
  • When Private Bradley [aka Chelsea] Manning put his conscience ahead of his personal well-being by allegedly releasing important information to the world's public via WikiLeaks, he was put into an inhumane solitary confinement and is now facing charges that carry the possibility of him spending the rest of his life in prison.

  • We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.

    Race   Mad   Confusion  
    WILLIAM GOLDING (1979). “DARKNESS VISIBLE”
  • 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.

    Wall   Taken   Eye  
  • For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

    Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee
  • It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.

    Lois McMaster Bujold (1994). “Mirror Dance”, p.129, Baen Books
  • Most of them were murderers. But when I went there to talk, they were the nicest people. I did a reading. I said, "Thank you," and then they said to me, "Could you talk some more?" And I said, "Why?" and they answered, "Most of us are in solitary confinement, so the moment you finish talking, they take us back to our cells. We like hanging out here together."

    Reading   Cells   Talking  
    "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.
  • I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO wings - an "MO" is a "Mental Observation" inmate - from Rikers Island, to be set up in mental health institutions. You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders.

    Islands   Wings   Jail  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

    Men   Prison   Solitary  
  • External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!

    Wall   Exercise   Men  
    Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Journey to the Interior of the Earth”, p.150, Jules Verne
  • Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is considered the cruelest of punishments.

    Gary Chapman (2010). “The 5 Love Languages/Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married Set”, p.18, Moody Publishers
  • Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement. The ordinary world of work is closed to him - and that if he's lucky!

  • The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.

    "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)". www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.
  • In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.

    Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.220, Broadway Books
  • The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society.

    Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher
  • We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

    Orpheus Descending act 2, sc. 1 (1958)
  • 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.

    Successful   Play   Bored  
    Sam Keen (1980). “What to do when you're bored and blue”
  • The Truth is in the prolouge. Death to the romantic fool., the expert in solitary confinement.

    Fool   Experts   Truth Is  
    Pablo Neruda, “Still Another Day: XVII/Men”
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