#walls

The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony. ↗

— Hans Blix

#bugs #cannot #carry #country #democratic

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#education #house #human #men #molds

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls. ↗

— Epicurus

#against #as far as #city #concerned #far

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#anything #attracted #because #condition #examining

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#ghosts #houses #more #ooze #our

We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways. ↗

— Edward Coke

#house #houses #maxim #old #old ways

I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on. ↗

— Gary Coleman

#allowed #beat #brick #desire #head

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down. ↗

— John Cotton

#brass #down #liberty #pinch #sea

The walls are the publishers of the poor. ↗

— Eduardo Galeano

#publishers #walls

When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers. ↗

— Natalia Ginzburg

#am #between #child #country #her