Causes Quote by Elizabeth Drew

“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

“The suffering of being imprisoned rests in the fact that it is impossible, at any time, to escape from oneself.”

— Kōbō Abe

That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

— C. S. Lewis

The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of…

— Emma Goldman

“Many individuals are so constituted that their only thought is to obtain pleasure and shun responsibility. They would like, butterfly-like, to wing forever in…

— Theodore Dreiser

Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. ~Henry Van Dyke

— Henry Van Dyke

One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the…

— Dorothy Day

“I had never seen a prison, nor had I even imagined one, but there is a racial memory in man that instinctively knows of…

— Bryce Courtenay

Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering.…

— Simone Weil

“From Jane Collier's "An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting" - In short, keep up in your mind the true spirit of contradiction…

— Jane Collier

“Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. Thus abandoning certain investigations is out of the question. It is only a…

— Georges Batailles