Prison
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A prison is a place in which individuals are physically confined and deprived of a range of personal freedoms.
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- At the risk of quoting Mephistopheles I repeat: Welcome to hell. A hell erected and maintained by human-governments, and blessed by black robed judges. A hell that allows you to see your loved ones, but not to touch them. A hell situated in America's boondocks, hundreds of miles away from most families. A white, rural hell, where most of the captives are black and urban. It is an American way of death.
- Mumia Abu-Jamal, All Things Censored (2001, Seven Stories Press), pp. 55-56
- Stone Walls do not a Prison make, Nor Iron bars a Cage...
- Richard Lovelace, "To Althea, From Prison" (1642)
- Might I but through my prison once a day
Behold this maid: all corners else o' the earth
Let liberty make use of; space enough
Have I in such a prison.- William Shakespeare, The Tempest, I:2, Ferdinand
- And, for thou wast a spirit too delicate
To act her earthy and abhorr'd commands,
Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee,
By help of her more potent ministers
And in her most unmitigable rage,
Into a cloven pine; within which rift
Imprison'd thou didst painfully remain
A dozen years; within which space she died
And left thee there; where thou didst vent thy groans
As fast as mill-wheels strike.- William Shakespeare, The Tempest, II:2, Prospero, speaking to Ariel
- Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.
