#prison

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

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Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood. ↗

— Norman Cousins

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I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons. ↗

— Angela Davis

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First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons. ↗

— Angela Davis

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May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

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After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced. ↗

— Barbara Deming

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All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away. ↗

— Barbara Deming

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But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

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To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

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