The best kind of prisoner is one who doesn’t even know…

Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up.

— David Foster

“Before you can act fully and truly, you must know the prison in which you are living, how it has been created; and in…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“This too I know - and wise it were If each could know the same - That every prison that men build Is built…

— Oscar Wilde

If you want to know how many prison cells to build, look at the number of third graders who can't read.

— Mary Landrieu

You never know you are in a prison unless you try the door

— Joe Bageant

And I never thought about how the lights don't go out, so you never really rest, in that way. I never really thought about…

— Taylor Schilling

“you see it.” Gurdjieff, a great spiritual teacher who taught in Europe and America in the early decades of the twentieth century, noted that…

— Ram Dass

You know you are in prison when you try to please everyone.

— Ewshy Crazyness

as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.

— William S. Burroughs

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood… storytelling is intrinsic to biological time, which…

— A. S. Byatt

There's no straight line between closing the mental institutions and filling the prisons but there is some sort of relationship. And it's hard to…

— Peter Moskos

“A prisoner is imprisoned by the crime that he has committed. A jailer is imprisoned — in the very same prison — by the…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.

— Henri Matisse

In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a…

— Anonymous