#prison

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#adapt #exert #first #freedom #fruitful

I am George Rogers Clark. You have just become a prisoner of the Commonwealth of Virginia. ↗

— George Rogers Clark

#become #clark #commonwealth #george #i

My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people. ↗

— John Henrik Clarke

#another #assigned #become #child #deity

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#applied #chair #electricity #expert #father

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

#denied #most #precisely #prison #prisoner

Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#courtroom #expression #freedom #freedom of expression #got

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#diaries #education #end #felt #i

I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#beings #changed #human #human beings #i

As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000. ↗

— Julian Assange

#basement #cables #come #confinement #continue

It is important that people support prisoners of the Italian state like Joe in whatever way they can. I was not allowed contact with a lawyer for the first 24 hours, and no phone calls were permitted, but apparently telegrams have been getting through to Joe. ↗

— John Blair

#apparently #been #calls #contact #first