Jardine Libaire Quotes

What we know to be true is that comfort isn't always freedom. People confuse the two.

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.

People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it.

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

I am bigger than the box I'm in.

I can almost see what Gabriel meant when he asked, 'What has the free world got that you can’t get here?' Almost. Freedom, Gabriel. That’s what you can’t get here.

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.

By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain.

It's like an Alcatraz around my neck

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.

When the fishbowl gets too small, it's time to pack up and leave and jump into the lake or ocean.

I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip.

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free.