Prison Cells Quotes

• I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.

  Bobby Fischer

  Cells, Mind, Coward

  Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. May 24, 1999.

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• Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

  Richard Lovelace

  Wall, Angel, Iron

  "To Althea, from Prison" l. 25 (1649)

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• Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Truth, Cells, Hunters

  1973 'Fear and Loathing at the Superbowl', in Rolling Stone, 15 Feb.

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• Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.

  Scott Lynch

  Wall, Angel, Iron

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• The secret to writing is just to write. Write every day. Never stop writing. Write on every surface you see; write on people on the street. When the cops come to arrest you, write on the cops. Write on the police car. Write on the judge. I'm in jail forever now, and the prison cell walls are completely covered with my writing, and I keep writing on the writing I wrote. That's my method.

  Neil Gaiman

  Wall, Writing, Cells

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• A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes...and is completely dependent on the fact that
  the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christmas, Cells, Doors

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• Under what rubric of common sense would you release violent criminals who are illegal back onto the streets in America? Why would you not deport them? I mean, you have them. It's not like you have to go to the shadows and find these people. They are in your jail cell. They're in your prison cell.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Cells, America

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• You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build.

  Sean O'Casey

  Wall, Cells, Ideas

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• I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell, to sacrifice my freedom, in order to show you how deeply I care. Because when you see the depth of my concern, and how civil I am in going about this, you're bound to change your mind about me, to abandon your rigid, unjust position, and to let me help you see the truth of my cause.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sacrifice, Cells, Order

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• We are not taught to fear our politicians, who can debase our currency, throw us in prison and send us to war - but rather we are taught to fear each other. We are taught to imagine that the real predators in this world are not those who control prison cells, national debts and nuclear weapons, but rather our fellow citizens, who in the absence of brutal control would surely tear us apart!

  Stefan Molyneux

  Real, War, Cells

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• Two places in this world make it impossible for a man to escape from himself: a battlefield and a prison cell.

  Anwar Sadat

  Men, Cells, Two

  Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row

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• Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Cells, People, Giving

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.17, New World Library

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• The BIBLE - banned, burned, beloved.  More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit it,  dictators of every age have outlawed it and executed those who read it.  Yet soldiers carry it into battle believing it more powerful than their weapons.  Fragments of it smuggled into solitary prison cells have transformed ruthless killers into gentle saints

  Charles Colson

  Powerful, Believe, Book

  Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.55, Zondervan

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• You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.

  Anthony de Mello

  Men, Cells, Vastness

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• The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

  Benjamin Franklin

  Cells, Liberty, Prison

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• Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back to Leningrad from Moscow, holding on to her son, knowing she had failed him, crying for Alexander, wanting another drink, and Harold, in his prison cell, crying for Alexander, and Yuri Stepanov on his stomach in the mud in Finland, crying for Alexander, and Dasha in the truck, on the Ladoga ice, crying for Alexander, and Tatiana on her knees in the Finland marsh, screaming for Alexander, and Anthony, alone with his nightmares, crying for his father.

  Paullina Simons

  Father, Son, Knowing

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• The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.

  George W. Bush

  Powerful, Cells, Iraq

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004

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• An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Wall, Women, Intelligent

  "America's Medieval Women". Harper's Magazine, August 1938.

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• If life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows of our dreams, their colourful patterns engraving our oblivion on the static surface of the walls.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Wall, Philosophical

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• If you want to know how many prison cells to build, look at the number of third graders who can't read.

  Mary Landrieu

  Kids, Cells, Numbers

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• You shouldn't have a profit motivation to fill prison cells with young Americans.

  Hillary Clinton

  Motivation, Cells, Prison

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Who would have ever thought I'd find love, contentment and joy in a prison cell, but I did. I knew that I knew that I knew that day, I'd been released, and I thought to myself, "I need to tell everyone about this" because no one had ever told me.

  Christian Hosoi

  Cells, Joy, Finding Love

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Two weeks after the arrested I was on the phone with my wife and we said a prayer and I was crying and just so happy, I can't even explain it. It was euphoric. People said I went from freedom my whole life to prison, but in reality, I went from imprisonment and bondage of sin and death my whole life, to finding freedom in a prison cell.

  Christian Hosoi

  Prayer, Reality, Cells

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I'd gotten to the place where I wanted to quit using drugs but couldn't and finally I landed in that prison cell where everything was cut.

  Christian Hosoi

  Cutting, Cells, Drug

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• 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. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Past, Cells, Years

  1973 'Fear and Loathing at the Superbowl', in Rolling Stone, 15 Feb.

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