Thoughts on walls

Image: Chaitanya Dinesh Surpur

“We build too many walls and not enough bridges.”
— Isaac Newton
 
“That city is well fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick.”
—Lycurgus
 
“The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.”
— Huey Newton

“Even paradise could become a prison if one had enough time to take notice of the walls.”
— Morgan Rhodes
 
“Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knock them down.”
— Darnell Lamont Walker
 
“When the wind rises, some people build walls. Others build windmills.”
— Chinese proverb
 
“George Bush taking credit for the Wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the
sun rising.”
— Al Gore
 
“A boundary is not that at which something stops,  but that from which something begins.”
— Martin Heidegger
 
“The strength of walls depends on the courage of those who guard them.”
— Genghis Khan
 
“The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said, ‘This is mine’, and found people naive enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
 
“[Walls] show that politicians have reached the end of their ideas about what to do about a difficult situation with a neighbour… They can’t think what else to do.”
— Frederick Taylor
 
“The wide world is all about you; you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.”
— JRR Tolkien
 
“You have a 12-foot fence. You know what’ll happen? Thirteen-foot ladders.”
— Bill Richardson
 
“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.”
— Jim Rohn
 
“I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.”
— Gustav Mahler
 
“If you keep running into the same wall over and over again, turn.”
— Crystal DeLarm Clymer

“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.”
—GK Chesterton