E. M. Forster Quotes

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

It is torment to be segregated out because of some bit of clothing that you're wearing.

Each person creates boundaries and walls around the self - this often keeps even happiness at bay.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

Don't tell me what to do, don't tell me what to say. And please, when I go out with you, don't put me on display.

No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity.

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 and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.

You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to.

If you want to punish somebody, never talking to them again is a really good method.

You can't always let people do their own thing.

Stay out of the loop, the club, the inner circle.

I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.

They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished.

I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.

Whenever there are enclosing walls, there are abuses behind them.

I've been banned from just about everything.

I definitely don't make many friends. It's my choice; I just have a wall. It's not that I have anything against anyone.

Truthfully, I mostly can be as private as I want.

I like my space.

Paradoxically, by insisting on engaging with Muslims as a separate group, the authorities make many of them feel even more excluded.

I've had enough of being public property.

You look around, and you think, 'Given the chance, if we can get away with it, people are going to be nasty to each other. They're going to pull up the draw bridge; they're going to draw up the ladder and try to live in this little bubble without giving anything to anyone else - without even receiving anything from anyone else.'

I just wanted to find out where the boundaries were. So far I've found there aren't any. I just wanted to be stopped, and no one will stop me.

A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.