Richard Engel Quotes

Some people build fences to keep people out; some people build fences to keep people in.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

A fence can be protective around your family - a familial fence. Then, there are the people who only know how to take, to abuse, to offend and they build fences to keep you out. They don't have time to talk, they don't have kind words, they only talk about themselves. They never give an olive branch or forgiveness - they create a fence because of their personality or behavior and they want to create a barrier to keep people out.

Something there is that does not love a wall.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.

Fences work and the walls work and separations work. They afford to any nation the delay of entry.

Fences and borders are a sign of weakness.

The greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another

You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

Let's not build a wall around ourselves just when they're coming down all over the world.

The best thing about being President is that it gets you out of American life. I don't know what the theory is behind this, but it is a fact. The first thing we do with a President is shunt him off to a siding where nothing American can ever happen to him.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

The stupidity of militarized fences between two worlds is a metaphor for all the things that divide us as human beings.

'Lullaby' is about boundaries.

We're not in the business of putting up barriers; that's the job of politicians. They're the idiots who want to build walls between people.

Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.

The walls of pride are high and wide, can't see over to the other side.

Boundaries aren't all bad. That's why there are walls around mental institutions.

Getting a room's not always enough. Sometimes you gotta close the door.

These days, more than any other time, we are worried about our personal life, our private life. When we talk about our private life, it means our home, our body even. It seems that when we want to have calmness in this world, we make a wall around us. This gives us a very calm environment, and when we feel that somebody is intruding into that, it makes us very angry and we feel we have to do something about it.

Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.

In a world without fences, who needs Gates?

The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out.