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Prison Quotes - Page 18

Make not your thoughts your prisons.

William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentick Copies, and Revised; with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added, an Essay on the Chronological Order of His Plays; an Essay Relative to Shakspeare and Jonson; a Dissertation on the Three Parts of King Henry VI; an Historical Account of the English Stage; and Notes; by Edmond Malone”, p.591

I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.

"The Andrew Marr Show", news.bbc.co.uk. February 6, 2011.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.93

The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.

"Speech to the Labour Party Conference". www.independent.co.uk. September 28, 2004.

In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.

Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). “Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader”, p.53, Stanford University Press

My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing.

Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.204, Anchor

We made it,' he shouted. 'Not bad for a prison break, eh?' 'Good thinking Jake.

Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company