Confined Quotes

• You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.

  Andrew Murphy

  Wall, Inspirational Life

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• By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Knowledge, Men, Primitive Man

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• If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.

  Martin Van Buren

  Law, Acting, Limits

  United States. President (1837-1841 : Van Buren), Martin Van Buren (1838). “Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress”, p.13

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• Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes but is confined within specific limits and subjected to specific rules.

  Alice Miller

  Discipline, Wish, Limits

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.31, Macmillan

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• The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mind, Limits, Humans

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1849). “The Auto-biography of Goethe: The autobiography [etc.] The concluding books. Also Letters from Switzerland and Travels in Italy, tr. by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison”, p.443

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• If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

  Toni Morrison

  Peace, Ties, Diversity

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Oct 31, 2011

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• Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs... may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimension, and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to be confined to limited Dimensionality.

  Edwin A. Abbott

  Race, Humanity, Mind

  Edwin A. Abbott, William F. Lindgren, Thomas F. Banchoff (2010). “Flatland: An Edition with Notes and Commentary”, p.216, Cambridge University Press

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• Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Self, Vision, World

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• What if today.. you were inspired and fed by your thoughts instead of being confined by them?

  Marjo-Riikka Makela

  What If, Today, Inspired

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• Remember the story of the Spanish prisoner. For many years he was confined in a dungeon... One day it occurred to him to push the door of his cell. It was open; and it had never been locked.

  Winston Churchill

  Doors, Cells, Years

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• There are ten thousand states of mind. Most people spend their entire lives confined to a few of these states of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Mind, States

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• Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.

  Plato

  Life And Love, Power, Access

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• Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy.

  Terence McKenna

  Games, Miracle, Energy

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• I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions are generated.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, World Government, Class

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• God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

  Desmond Tutu

  Love Is, Sides, Conflict

  "Archbishop Desmond Tutu". Interview with Frank Lipman, www.bewell.com. April 14, 2009.

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• Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Mean, Doubters, Sole

  Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.28, Vintage

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• All propaganda must be confined to a few bare necessities and then must be expressed in a few stereotyped formulas . . . Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea upon the memory of a crowd.

  Adolf Hitler

  Memories, Ideas, Crowds

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• Being confined to a wheelchair doesn't bother me as my mind is free to roam the universe, but it felt wonderful to be weightless.

  Stephen Hawking

  Mind, Wonderful, Wheelchairs

  "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today Interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.

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• The joys of fishing are not confined to the hours near the water.

  Herbert Hoover

  Fishing, Water, Joy

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• Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are.

  Karl Barth

  Evil Within, Sin, Evil Things

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• My experience of singing, as an actor, was that there's a different creative feeling of freedom. The acting thing is a bit more defined and cerebral. I can see why people would want to cross over. If you have so much freedom on stage then perhaps you want to be confined a bit, and vice versa.

  Orlando Bloom

  People, Creative, Feelings

  "Orlando Bloom and Juliette Lewis Interview SYMPATHY FOR DELICIOUS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 25, 2011.

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• Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. Men have various employments and pursuits which engage their attention, and give a character to the opening mind; but women, confined to one, and having their thoughts constantly directed to the most insignificant part of themselves, seldom extend their views beyond the triumph of the hour.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Women, Character, Views

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 3 (1792)

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• When I read these books, I no longer felt like I was confined to a very tiny world. I no longer felt housebound and bedbound. Really, I told myself, I was just brainbound. And this was not such a sorry state of affairs. My brain, with a little help from other people's brains, could take me to some pretty interesting places, and create all kinds of wonderful things. Despite its faults, my brain, I decided, was not the worst place in the world to be.

  Gavin Extence

  Sorry, Book, People

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• I think we think that parenthood is confined to the country of mothers, but I think a lot of the men I've spoken to and the men who have read my books - I've been surprised by this actually - have a fierce attachment to being parents and to being fathers. And just as we, a lot of women I know, want this, men too want to pass down what they have to pass down.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Country, Mother, Father

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Book, Artist, Reason Why

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.46, Random House

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