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“Let us listen to the needs of our inner child that is being tamed and imprisoned by the rules of a grown-up world. ("Going back to yesterday" )”
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“Some may remain imprisoned in a gridlock of lies or keep on blurring the lines between facts and fables, expecting us to buy the debilitating and fake narrative of their life, until they eventually end up on the chopping block of the inexorable truth. Be that as it may, one can “fool people some of the time, but not all of the time”. (“Bribe payers' index »)”
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“The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people. His servitude is strictly objective.”
― Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
― Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
“Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.”
― Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
― Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
“Let my silence grow with noise
as pregnant mothers grow with life.
Let my silence permeate these walls
as sunlight permeates a home.
Let the silence rise from unwatered graves
and craters left by bombs.
Let the silence rise from empty bellies
and surge from broken hearts.
The silence of the hidden and forgotten.
The silence of the abused and tortured.
The silence of the persecuted and imprisoned.
The silence of the hanged and massacred.
Loud as all the sounds can be,
let my silence be loud
so the hungry may eat my words
and the poor may wear my words.
Loud as all the sounds can be,
let my silence be loud
so I may resurrect the dead
and give voice to the oppressed.
My silence speaks.”
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as pregnant mothers grow with life.
Let my silence permeate these walls
as sunlight permeates a home.
Let the silence rise from unwatered graves
and craters left by bombs.
Let the silence rise from empty bellies
and surge from broken hearts.
The silence of the hidden and forgotten.
The silence of the abused and tortured.
The silence of the persecuted and imprisoned.
The silence of the hanged and massacred.
Loud as all the sounds can be,
let my silence be loud
so the hungry may eat my words
and the poor may wear my words.
Loud as all the sounds can be,
let my silence be loud
so I may resurrect the dead
and give voice to the oppressed.
My silence speaks.”
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“Lucy seemed to be imprisoned by a legion of people in her life who always wanted what was right for her. And as a result, in the eyes of everyone, she had everything... and yet she always, always felt she had nothing. No one.”
― Saint Paul Trois Chateaux: 1948
― Saint Paul Trois Chateaux: 1948
“Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between its walls still permeated the house.”
― The Midnight Palace
― The Midnight Palace
“No one in chains could ever truly love you.'
He glares. 'Do you expect me to believe you know anything about love?'
The truth of that hits like a blow.”
― The Stolen Heir
He glares. 'Do you expect me to believe you know anything about love?'
The truth of that hits like a blow.”
― The Stolen Heir
“I wonder if there's a limit to what I will let them do, if there is something that would make me fight back, even if it dooms me.
If there is, that makes me a fool.
But maybe if there isn't, that makes me a monster.”
― The Wicked King
If there is, that makes me a fool.
But maybe if there isn't, that makes me a monster.”
― The Wicked King
“To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we’ve hemmed ourselves in by creating them in the first place.”
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“It is not the chains of some tyrant that robs us of freedom. Rather, it is the staleness of our attitude.”
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“Suddenly finding myself imprisoned in the ruins of the fortresses I created, I realize that that which I built to protect me has now become a labyrinth that is set to destroy me. And laying spent in the rubble, I finally realize that there is only one fortress and I cannot create it because there is only one God.”
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“I can confidently state that the greatest rescues in my life have occurred when I’ve been saved from myself.”
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“The walls that hold my prison pent soul closed with an eternal thud. A destructive bent blossomed in the desert of my ebbing passion. I am a lonely man with no skeleton key that will allow me to escape a static penitentiary and enter a world where joy reigns. My strangeness sentenced me forever to be alone. Stranded alone, I must bear the mental lashings associated with a penal life. My relegated daily vigil consists of dragging around ankle chains and enduring a penitence period hobbled to punitive labor. There is no relief in sight; no chance exists to receive a stay of execution from self-punishment arising from a criminal spree of failure. My crazed-eyed preoccupation is to stand on my tippy toes in a private cellblock and stare down at the starkness of my picked over bones.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
“Women who had bought into an institution designed by the male architects of our patriarchal society to fail them or even exploit them. Women for whom the social contract had turned out to be a death sentence or, if that was a little too strong, at least a form of imprisonment.”
― Old Heart
― Old Heart
“When you are imprisoned, you can’t enjoy the benefits of being alive. You can’t educate yourself and discover the beauty of the world. Fishy”
― Birdy & Fishy, Destination: Freedom
― Birdy & Fishy, Destination: Freedom
“God has placed Himself squarely within the confines of my confines so that within my reach there lays the very thing that I need to break me out of those confines. Therefore, if I remain confined, it may be because I don’t understand that I’m confined. And if I don’t understand that I’m confined, I can be certain that I don’t understand my need for God. And that is likely the greatest confinement of all.”
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“Being caged is different from being imprisoned. There are being caged but don't feel imprisoned at all. And there are being imprisoned that are not litterally caged.”
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“Jesus never says to the poor, ‘Come find the church,’ but he says to those of us in the church, ‘Go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned,’ Jesus in his disguises.”
― The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
― The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
“I have to fight to exist and resist, especially with a virus that is keeping us imprisoned.”
― Ouch! A memoir with a twist…
― Ouch! A memoir with a twist…
“Maybe it’s not about breaking your shackles at all. Maybe it’s about making you bigger than anything that would ever try to shackle you ever again.”
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“By the time Ramuel decided to let me serve as his assassin, it had been nine years since I'd seen sunlight. Since I'd heard the wind or smelled the rain. Since I'd seen grass, or a river, or a mountain. Since I'd flown.”
― House of Earth and Blood
― House of Earth and Blood
“A prison might feel like freedom for those who don’t understand that there’s two sides to every wall.”
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“I read in secret, all the time. I read in the toilets. I read in the middle of the night. I read as if books could loosen the noose tightening around my throat. I read to understand that there is somewhere else. A dimension where possibilities shimmer.”
― Eve out of Her Ruins
― Eve out of Her Ruins
“But even with the hundreds of flowers, I was aware of the small deaths brought by each morning, as one by one, the roses withered. They were replaced by others, of course, but it wasn't the same. Each tiny life that bloomed into being would live only in the greenhouse, then die. In that way, we were alike.”
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