The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
– Karl Kraus
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- To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Solitary confinement is rock bottom, it’s absolute unfreedom. – Arthur Koestler
- If you’re living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you. – Martha Beck
- We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. – Tennessee Williams
- How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. – Karl Kraus
- If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle. – Samuel Johnson
- The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are. – Karl Kraus
- Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone’s slave. – Karl Kraus
- A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful. – Karl Kraus
- Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws. – Karl Kraus
- A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. – Karl Kraus
- My language is the common ???????ute that I turn into a virgin. – Karl Kraus
- Having a large world of his own in his own head and heart, he tolerated confinement to a small, still corner of the real world very patiently. – Charlotte Bront
- The world we are is a secret prison and the secret prison is power. – Saminu Kanti
- Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all – Alan Moore
- The only prison we can be is prison of our mind. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Even sentenced to twenty-five years in prison Ted didn’t get what he deserved. Maybe his prison mates would give it to him. – Suzie Ivy
- Why does it seem easier for us to accept reality when it is within the confinement of the animal kingdom yet so hard for us to face it in our? – Aysha Taryam
- Why does it seem easier for us to accept reality when it is within the confinement of the animal kingdom yet so hard for us to face it in our? – Aysha Taryam
- What is the sweetness of flowers compared to the savour of dust and confinement? – Peter Ackroyd
- Places of confinement providing free food and medical care are called prisons. – John Lilly
- I know who I am. Bloody hell, I’m getting enough bills for Karl Pilkington so I hope I am him, ‘cos if I’m not, I have no idea who I’m paying for. – Karl Pilkington
- Maybe, peace was preferable to pleasure. Maybe, peace is one’s first love. – Anuradha Bhattacharyya
- Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, -œWhat kind of peace? – Noam Chomsky
- Everybody wants a change and change happens in the life of everybody each day, but not all changes are preferable – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible. – Aristotle
- Strength and weakness are both mental constructs. Now you choose, what’s preferable for you. – Abhijit Naskar
- An end in terror is preferable to terror without end. – Sophie Scholl
- It has always been preferable to attribute a woman’s success to her beauty rather to her brains, to reduce her to the sum of her sex life. – Stacy Schiff
- …knowing often felt preferable to not knowing. It provided the illusion of control. – Jordan Castillo Price
- So long as victory can be attained, stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness. – Sun Tzu
- Don’t accept the available as the preferable. Go extra mile with extra speed. – Israelmore Ayivor
- When I visit someplace new my favorite thing to do is eat…and walk, preferable to a place where I can eat some more. – Jessica Fechtor
- …Defeat appears to me preferable to total Inaction. – John Adams
- a lack of communication is preferable to a profusion of miscommunications. – Sagey Malik
- Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden paths of experience. – Richard DavenportHines
- We suicide ourselves for our own survival. Is there any hope of dipping back into the past and circling round it like you can in art? – Chris Kraus
- Anyone who feels to much or radiates extremity gets very lonely. – Chris Kraus
- Better, perhaps, to dress like a whore around the clock and thus achieve a fully integrated personality. – Chris Kraus
- The Girl does not dream. The Girl has never dreamed. – Emma Rose Kraus