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Prison Quotes
"It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. "
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Nelson Mandela
"Jail didn’t make me find God, he’s always been there "
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Lil Wayne
"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear."
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Aung San Suu Kyi
"Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion "
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William Blake
"The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison"
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
"There is no way out of the imagined order. When we break down our prison walls and run towards freedom, we are in fact running into the more spacious exercise yard of a bigger prison"
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Yuval Noah Harari
"The soul is the prison of the body"
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Michel Foucault
"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny"
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Bertrand Russell
"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people—including me—would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today "
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Hunter S. Thompson