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Most men are prisoners at best, Who some strong habit every drag about Like chain and ball.

Garrison Keillor

In zoos, along with the animals, the humanity of man is also prisoned! No cage is humane!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?

Michael Moorcock

The whole earth is in jail and we’re plotting this incredible jailbreak.

Wavy Gravy

Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.

Weston La Barre

Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.

Loren Eiseley

When you live your whole life in a prison freedom can be so dull

Jaden Smith

Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren’t you just in another, larger one?

Haruki Murakami

In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

Henry David Thoreau

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes

George Will

The thoughts of a prisoner – they’re not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When you’re locked up in here for life, you learn to welcome the little freedoms.

Alexander Gordon Smith

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

Alexander McQueen

OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

Ambrose Bierce

The biggest concentration camp is inside your own mind.

Mo Gawdat

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.

Khalil Gibran

In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Her beauty was sold for an old man’s gold. She’s a bird in a gilded cage.

Arthur J. Lamb

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

Anna Freud

Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

Joyce Cary

We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

John Bunyan

The same protection you create for yourself becomes the wall that imprisons you.

Tony Robbins

Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.

Sidney Sheldon

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