51 quotes found
“I know not whether laws be right Or whether laws be wrong All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong And that each day is like a year A year whose days are long.”
“I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.”
“One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.”
“Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion”
“While we are together, I will never suffer a prison again.”
“you do your own time in prison. You don't do anyone else's time for them.”
“...any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums, Paul learned, who find prison so ...”
“Stone walls do not a prison make Nor iron bars a cage Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage.”
“In durance vile here must I wake and weep And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.”
“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly the true place for a just man is also a prison.”
