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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, Civil Disobedience
“Your bad love to yourselves maketh solitude a prison to you.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“For prison life with its endless privations and restrictions makes one rebellious. The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.” Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
“Only free men can negotiate.” Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
“there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so” William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.” William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
“For, what other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!” Nathaniel Hawthorne, House of the Seven Gables
“Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be.” Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
“Monday morning found Tom Sawyer miserable. Monday morning always found him so—because it began another week's slow suffering in school. He generally began that day with wishing he had had no intervening holiday, it made the going into captivity...” Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.” Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
“like the eagle, his own flesh as well as all space was still a cage.” William Faulkner, Light in August
“We don’t send people to Azkaban just for blowing up their aunts!” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he longed for freedom.” W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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