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Prison Quotes

"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear."

"If it weren’t for my lawyer, I’d still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging the tunnel."

"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking is freedom"

"The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison"

"Jail didn’t make me find God, he’s always been there "

"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny"

"Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion "

"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people—including me—would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today "

"The soul is the prison of the body"

"It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. "

"There is no way out of the imagined order. When we break down our prison walls and run towards freedom, we are in fact running into the more spacious exercise yard of a bigger prison"