Quotes with cages

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• It happens as one sees in cages: the birds who are outside despair of ever getting in, and those within are equally desirous of getting out

  ― Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
  French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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• Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

  ― Aldous Huxley
  English writer (1894 - 1963)
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• Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.

  ― Angela Davis
  American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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• Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

  ― Spiro T. Agnew
  39th Vice President of the United States, (1918 - 1996)
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• The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

  ― Virginia Woolf
  English writer (1882 - 1941)
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• The reason why so few marriages are happy, is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

  ― Jonathan Swift
  English writer (1667 - 1745)
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• Though it is pleasant weaving nets, it is wiser to make cages.

  ― Thomas Moore
  Irish poet (1779 - 1852)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• homelessness
• unemployment
• illiteracy
• contending
• newspapers
• marriages

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