Solitary Confinement Quotes - Page 2

• He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement.

  Suzanne Collins

  Choices, Peaceful, Solitude

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.46, Scholastic Inc.

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• Solitary confinement has been used extensively, it always has. I was in prison for 44 years; it was a normal part of life - the practice of it. They put you in solitary confinement for disciplinary reasons, they put you in solitary confinement to protect you from violence or whatever, and they also put you in solitary confinement just to show you who has got the power ... It's not something new; it's just something that nobody really cared about in the past.

  Wilbert Rideau

  Past, Years, Practice

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• 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

  College, Nuclear Families, Social

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.42, Random House

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• 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

  Country, Love You, Recovery

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.220, Broadway Books

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• 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.

  William Golding

  Race, Mad, Confusion

  WILLIAM GOLDING (1979). “DARKNESS VISIBLE”

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• I was having an epiphany. A moment of supreme clarity, leading to what I dubbed a “realization of solitude” that goes like this: I’m lonely. But when I left that girl in the window I was sure I’d never felt more godforsaken in my life. 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

  Girl, Lonely, Emotional

  "How to Kill a Rock Star". Book by Tiffanie DeBartolo, 2005.

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

  Martha Beck

  Break Out, Helping, Solitary

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• Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Lonely, Writing, Research

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• 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.

  Cecily McMillan

  Islands, Wings, Jail

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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.

  Tariq Ramadan

  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.

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• We fight for territory. We see it in our Congress, we see it in our political systems, we see it in our ways of life, how separated we are. When we moved out of the cities and we lost all of the memory that was in cities, and we - one of the highest achievements in our culture is to be able to segregate yourself from everyone else, and the deep thing is the deepest punishment is solitary confinement.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Memories, Fighting, Punishment

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

  Ray McGovern

  Aka, Important, Wikileaks

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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.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Father, Thinking, Law

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• 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!

  Peter Straub

  Writing, Ordinary World, Lucky

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• I see Edward Snowden as someone who has chosen, at best, exile from the country he loves-with a serious risk of his assassination by agents of his government or life in prison (in solitary confinement)-to awaken us to the danger of our loss of democracy to a total-surveilla nce state

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Country, Loss, Government

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• 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.

  Sam Keen

  Successful, Play, Bored

  Sam Keen (1980). “What to do when you're bored and blue”

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• In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement.

  Andre Agassi

  Men, Islands, Games

  Andre Agassi (2015). “The Whirl”, p.11, Vintage

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• 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.

  Wally Wood

  Book, Artist, Thinking

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• As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000.

  Julian Assange

  Writing, Media, Organization

  "WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Interview". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.nbclearn.com. December 17, 2010.

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

  Will Self

  Writing, Life Is, Solitary

  "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)". www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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