Prison Quotes

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What's that?" he snarled, staring at the envelope Harry was still clutching in his hand. "If it's another form for me to sign, you've got… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
But let there be no misunderstanding: it is not that a real man, the object of knowledge, philosophical reflection or technological intervention, has been substituted… — Michel Foucault
This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary.… — Aldous Huxley
I was struck with a bolt of distilled horror like I have never known before. Far worse than suddenly finding yourself walking through a prison… — Augusten Burroughs
I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming… — Oscar Wilde
The prison keeper choose an inopportune time to look around the doorway into the cell. He and the king locked gazes, and the king's eyes… — Megan Whalen Turner
The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison,… — Charles Dickens
Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards — Bob Dylan
We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stoneâ€”crumbling… — Ekaterina Sedia
It turns out Dimitri had a friend, who had a friend, and despite the best security in the Moroi world, we managed to get into… — Richelle Mead
The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary… — Margaret Atwood
Security without liberty is called prison. — Benjamin Franklin
If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because they live comfortably… — Joe Bageant
Are there no prisons? — Charles Dickens
So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said. Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing." "Self-inflicted. You pathetic American." "Different kind of prison" Chip said. — Jonathan Franzen
You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall not enslave my… — Khalil Gibran
Happiness is the most insidious prison of all. — Alan Moore
There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But… — George Bernard Shaw
I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly… — C.S. Lewis
Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. — Malcolm Gladwell

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