“ Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying. ”
- Evelyn Waugh- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in gaol is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 2.7K
“ He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. ”
- Thomas Hobbes- Copy
- 750
“ In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. ”
- Eldridge Cleaver- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline. ”
- Michel Foucault- Copy
- 2.6K
“ We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. ”
- Eugene V. Debs- Copy
- 2.3K
“ In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep. ”
- Robert Burns- Copy
- 940
“ Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea. ”
- Richard Saunders- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Alcatraz, the federal prison with a name like the blare of a trombone, is a black molar in the jawbone of the nation's prison system. ”
- Thomas E. Gaddis- Copy
- 3K
“ It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around. ”
- Mario Vargas Llosa- Copy
- 3.1K
“ There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter. ”
- Jean Genet- Copy
- 908
“ We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
- 2.4K
“ We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death. ”
- John Donne- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
- 3.4K
“ I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.9K
“ If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging. ”
- Joe Martin- Copy
- 149
“ One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
- 203
“ The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. ”
- Israel Zangwill- Copy
- 228
“ Why, then 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it is a prison. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 544
“ Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. ”
- Horace Mann- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release. ”
- Germaine Greer- Copy
- 2.2K
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