Margaret Atwood Quotes

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

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

You'll never have a garden - a garden needs walls and you have no walls.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

In a world without fences, who needs Gates?

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.

The great wall of China was built just as much to keep the Chinese in as to keep the barbarians out.

I really like cages.

A cage that allows someone to walk around inside of it is still a cage.

When they have opened a gap in the ... wall of separation between the Garden of the Church and the wildernes of the world, God hath ever ... made his Garden a Wildernesse.

O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a wild animal only when he build the first wall. Men ceased to be a wild man only when we built the Green Wall, only when, by means of that wall, we isolated our perfect machine world from the irrational, ugly world of trees, birds, and animals.

When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!

There can be many bars, wires that keep a person trapped. All of them don't have to have been created for the purpose of harming or caging the bird, but they still serve that function.

None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.

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

I've been so used to thinking of what the borders are keeping out that I haven't considered that they're also penning us in.

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

It makes a difference doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?

Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

A wall is the safeguard of simplicity.

I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.

It's silly to build a wall around your interests.

Believe that God is in control. There is no need to be stressed out or worried

Isn't it strange that people build walls to keep an enemy out, and there's only one part of the world and one philosophy where they have to build walls to keep their people in.

The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.