Quotes about Imprisonment

An obedient man is free when in prison," Quan said. "A disobedient man is imprisoned when free.

When we begin to build walls of prejudice, hatred, pride, and self-indulgence around ourselves, we are more surely imprisoned than any prisoner behind concrete walls and iron bars.

Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.

I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored

What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?

Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.