Neal Shusterman Quotes

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

You are a free woman, and then you become a prisoner, and you receive all kinds of orders. Sit here, stand there. That's it. You just, you don't have the possibility of even moving to take your bag without asking for permission.

Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.

We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of FREEDOM, and make 'em work. Work, you free jewel, WORK! shouts the liberator, cracking his whip.

Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards

He’s being held prisoner on a ceramic-lined cookie sheet in the oven,” Thomas said. “I figured he couldn’t jigger his way out of a bunch of steel, and it would give him something to think about before we start asking questions.” “That’s an awful thing to do to one of the Little Folk, man,” I said. “I’m planning to start making a pie in front of him.” “Nice.” “Thank you.

The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.

They say you better listen to the voice of reason But they don't give you any choice 'cause they think that it's treason. So you had better do as you are told. You better listen to the radio.

I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver.

It was dreadful. They tried to put the little redhead in a cage.

Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'

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

I don't want to live like a prisoner.

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.

I don't like being victimized by a machine or by other people's demands on my time. I become resentful by feeling forced or incentivized to live a life I don't want to live. That rage in general prevents me from entirely becoming enslaved by technology.

Intimidation doesn't last very long.

For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make man agree to his own destruction.

He that is taken and put into prisoner chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

If you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it

Once a person insists on how you are to think he immediately begins to insist on how you are to behave.

When you have no freedom, then your life becomes the life of an animal.

Physical restraint is an obvious condition, which seems particularly useful in defining freedom, but with respect to important issues, it is a metaphor and not a very good one. People are indeed controlled by fetters, handcuffs, strait jackets, and the walls of jails and concentration camps, but what may be called behavioral control--the restraint imposed by contingencies of reinforcement--is a very different thing.

I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.