Building Quote by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it. In fact, demolition is easy,…

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time. This is what really bothers you, that you can't…

— Joseph Brodsky

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.

— Angela Davis

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And…

— William Shakespeare

How come we never use prison, the failure of prison, as a reason not to give more prison? There's never a moment where we…

— James Forman, Jr

Too many people are living in a prison that they have themselves manufactured.

— Michael Beckwith

Make not your thoughts your prisons.

— William Shakespeare

With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The…

— Eric Sevareid

The lack of space and a growing prison population has strained resources and put pressure on all levels of the penal system.

— Elizabeth Flock

Unfortunately, prisons try very hard to make us inhuman and unreal by denying our image, and thus our existence, to the rest of the…

— Chelsea Manning

It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations. Prison is,…

— Joseph Brodsky