Prison Quotes - Page 5

• I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Attitude, Thinking, Leaving

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• We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves. The truth is we only become more fearful, more hardened and more alienated. We experience ourselves as being separate from the whole. This separateness becomes like a prison for us - a prison that restricts us to our personal hopes and fears, and to caring only for the people nearest to us. Curiously enough, if we primarily try to shield ourselves from discomfort, we suffer. Yet, when we don't close off, when we let our hearts break, we discover our kinship with all beings.

  Pema Chodron

  Truth, Fear, Heart

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• And please, please, lets us put mental health back on the top of our national agenda, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

  Hillary Clinton

  Health, Jail, Agendas

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• Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

  Henry David Thoreau

  War, Men, History

  Civil Disobedience (1849)

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• There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Philosophy, Thinking, Everyday

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• Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Fate, Destiny, Blood

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• Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the candle in barbed wire. When I first lit the Amnesty candle, I had in mind the old Chinese proverb: 'Better light a candle than curse the darkness.'

  Peter Benenson

  Light, Darkness, Chinese

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• But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Diaries, Ends, Felt

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• If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.

  Chaka Khan

  Pops, Call Me, Ifs

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• Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Spiritual, Self Esteem, Soul

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

  Abraham Cowley

  Home, World, Rooms

  Abraham Cowley (1779). “The Poems of Cowley”, p.113

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• Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.

  Rumi

  Wall, Sky, Prison Walls

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.52, Penguin UK

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• Fear of being a flawed person lay at the root of my trance, and I had sacrificed many moments over the years in trying to prove my worth. Like the tiger Mohini, I inhabited a self-made prison that stopped me from living fully.

  Tara Brach

  Self, Years, Roots

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• The world is a philosophical prison and Man is the philosophical prisoner.

  Kedar Joshi

  God, Philosophical, Men

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• A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

  Gloria Steinem

  Women, Space, Pedestal

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• I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

  William Shakespeare

  Hammers, World, May

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.380

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• You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea.
  You can kill a man, but not an idea.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Freedom

  Benazir Bhutto (1989). “Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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• I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in You.

  Rumi

  Long, Ego, Loses

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• Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Brother, Caring, Magic

  Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.144, Parkstone International

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• Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

  Winston Churchill

  Civilization, Political, Democracy

  Winston Churchill (1952). “The Second World War”

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• Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilized society, a prison.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Weed, Flower, Pigs

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1935). “The Scarlet Letter (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.24, Sparklesoup LLC

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• America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

  George W. Bush

  Second Chance, Land, America

  "Bush: the highlights", www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2004.

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• Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

  Dorothy Rowe

  Inspirational, Depression, Depressing

  Dorothy Rowe (2003). “Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison”, p.1, Psychology Press

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  Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

  Sylvia Plath

  Rooms, Your Room

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• If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mistake, Punishment, Suffering

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.237, 谷月社

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