“ When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you? ”
- Jim Bakker- Copy
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“ When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high. ”
- Florence Henderson- Copy
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“ Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby. ”
- Samuel Rutherford- Copy
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“ Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons? ”
- Michel Foucault- Copy
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“ While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons, and condemn to perpetual solitude in the very heart of our population. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
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“ What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
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“ We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
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“ Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows. ”
- Lucretius- Copy
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“ Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
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“ I had rather be a toad and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others' uses. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon. ”
- Saskya Pandita- Copy
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“ The miracle is that some have stepped out of the rags of the Republic's definition to assume the great burden and glory of their humanity and their responsibility for one another. It is an extraordinary achievement to be trapped in the dungeon of color and to dare to shake down its walls and to step out of it leaving the jailkeeper in the rubble. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
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