#prison

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#i #mind #never #prison #world

Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls. ↗

— Lil Wayne

#been #confined #find #god #jail

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link. ↗

— Simone Weil

#cells #communicate #communication #each #every

A mind enclosed in language is in prison. ↗

— Simone Weil

#language #mind #prison

No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons. ↗

— Jerry Weller

#funding #instead #more #prisons #sentencing

People come out of prison and aren't treated like I've been treated. I didn't kill anybody. I didn't violate anybody's rights. My rights were violated. Nobody likes to be hated, but the whole world hated Mary Beth Whitehead. ↗

— Mary Beth Whitehead

#been #come #hated #i #kill

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#lessons #many #prison #things #will

That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone. ↗

— Jayson Williams

#isolated #know #like #me #polished

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#choice #huge #increasingly #intelligent #jail

American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure. ↗

— John Yoo

#american soldiers #any #battlefield #distant #far