Patricia Briggs Quotes

When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.

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

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

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.

I don't want to live like a prisoner.

I can never consent to being dictated to.

Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

Connivance is the relaxation of slavery, not the definition of liberty.

I hold a jail more roomy ... than would be the whole world if I were to submit to repression.

I don't particularly like being told what to do.

Please don't tell me what I can't do.

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

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

The cell door slammed behind Rubishov.

So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name

A caged canary is safe but not free.

We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.

...she could only wait for someone, something, to free her from the invisible chains that bound her.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

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.

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.

Finn smiled ruefully. "I'm a Prisoner, old man. Just like you.

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.