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«In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.»
«Reality becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it»
Author: Joyce Cary (Writer) | Keywords: prison
«Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself»
Author: Patrick McGoohan | Keywords: burden, prison
«It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.»
«In my country we go to prison first and then become President.»
Author: Nelson Mandela (Statesman) | About: Politics | Keywords: My Country, prison
«One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny»
«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.»
«Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.»
«One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Learning | Keywords: learns, lessons, prison
«Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.»
Author: T.S. Eliot (Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet) | About: Liberty | Keywords: prison

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