Amount Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

While the State may respectfully require obedience on many matters, it cannot violate the moral nature of a man, convert him into a serviceable…

— Liane Norman

“You will find that most prisons are forged in someone’s own mind. And they invariably possess the key to their release if they could…

— Jeff Wheeler

They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is…

— William Faulkner

“Force persuades a person to speak, but it cannot guarantee his honesty. Quite the reverse: it will extract confessions from innocents and lies from…

— Meredith Duran

“Under a goverment which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison”

— Henry David Thoreau

If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

— Henry David Thoreau

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain…

— Charles Peguy

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

— Edwin Arnold

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has…

— Thomas Paine

“Prison is a society cultivating psychological repression. Deceptive, the subservient appearance of its camouflage a rage boiling just beneath the surface.”

— Dwight E. Abbott