Foreign language Quote by David Sedaris

Language controls how you are perceived by others, and in that sense, it is a prison.

— Glenn Ligon

“If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.”

— Andrew Cohen

“Today, one of the brothers asked me: Is it a terrible prison, not to be able to move from the place where you're standing?…

— Orson Scott Card

Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!

— David Mitchell

Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.

— Joseph Brodsky

“Prison is a still point in a turning world, and it is very easy to remain in the same place in jail while the…

— Nelson Mandela

The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the world, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only…

— Piper Kerman

“Libraries and Prison are playing same role but both places give you some lesson in your life.”

— Abid Hussain Library Officer

For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: "Even if you put me in prison, I will…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

— Simone Weil

“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.”

— Angela Y. Davis