“A cage is a safe place as long as nobody has the key.”

“The last safe place is safe no more.”

“You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it.”

“While Hindu activists are always treated like animals in a zoo, never allowed to speak for themselves, always condemned to be judged by what someone else has written on the signboard in front of their cage, Muslim fanatics are invited to serve as zoo guides, competent to inform the ignorant outsider about the meanness of these beasts safely locked up in their cages.”

“Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.”

“The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,
of things unknown, but longed for still,
and his tune is heard on the distant hill,
for the caged bird sings of freedom.”

“Nobody is safe of his life, property and health when the parliament deliberates.”

“Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?”

“Our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination, rationalized by an attitude of 'romantic paternalism' which, in practical effect, put women, not on a pedestal, but in a cage.”

“I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.”