Social Confinement Quotes

The ethnic enclave’s warm embrace becomes an economic stranglehold.

No one can say, 'I have dropped out - I am no longer in the system.' When you're in prison, you're even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don't transform the system as an absolute thing.

The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!

The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining.

Yes, marriage is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most unrequited fetter which prejudice has forged to confine its energies.

It seems to me that society usually wins. There are, to be sure, free spirits in the world, but their freedom, in the last analysis, is not much greater than that of a canary in a cage. They may leap from perch to perch; they may bathe and guzzle at their will; they may flap their wings and sing. But they are still in the cage, and soon or late it conquers them.

In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.

In a world of niches, we are enchained by our own consumer preferences.

None of the wives mention the security guards by the door, who will probably tackle us to the ground if we try to leave without our husbands.

I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.

Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes for her.