Captivity Quote by Eugene V. Debs

Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.

— Jessica Mitford

“The shades of the prison house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“On the inner side of the aquarium of reality, beliefs define the area of the prison.”

— Robert Neil Fleischer

Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.

— Yael Stone

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Dwight E. Abbott

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

— Virginia Woolf

“Our hearts are all prison walls when we hold people captive with chains of unforgiveness.”

— Ikechukwu Izuakor

“if I've learned anything through all this, it's that you can't build walls around the people you care about. You can't do it to…

— Kay Hooper

The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept.

— Jessica Mitford