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Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. To which are Now Added, Notes Illustrating Historical, Personal, and Local Allusions. [The Editor's Preface Signed: R. C., I.e. Robert Chambers.]

“Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On greater pirates we bestow. To steal a flower we call mean. To rob a field is chivalry; Who kills the body he must die, Who kills the spirit he goes free.”

Mean Body Law Spirit Dies Wealth Greater Fields Flower Honor Respect Prison Stealing Call Me Pirate Chivalry Offenders

Author:Khalil Gibran

“There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the dynamic enterprise economy. (...) It empowers poor people from the bottom up. (...) A dynamic economic sector is the poor's best hope of escaping the prison of poverty. It is the only system so far known to human beings to take poor people and make them, quite soon, middle class, and some of them even (horrors!) rich.”

“We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel this, such a sense of the vanity of our voluntary career comes over us, that all our morality appears but as a plaster hiding a sore it can never cure, and all our well-doing as the hollowest substitute for that well-being that our lives ought to be grounded in, but alas! are not.”

Men Life Feels Wells Careers Our Lives Ought Morality Sick Prison Cures Vanity Well Being Substitutes Hiding Grounded Alas Clay Inmates Plasters Sick Man

Author:William James

“Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like the U.S. Post Office.”

War Religious Cold Office Prison Unions Posts Soviet Cold War Soviet Union Circus Revival Post Office Brezhnev

Book:Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President

Source: Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President

“There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.”

Flower Prison Former Latter Jail Brutal Delicacy Fragility Convicts Close Relationship Insensitivity

Book:The thief's journal

Source: The thief's journal

“We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.”

Moments Pain Records Events Sorrow Prison Bitter Jail Prison Time

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

“We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.”

Stills Life Is Mother House Born Liberty Our Lives Wall Prison Jail Prisoner Execution Going Out Womb Prison Life Prison Walls

Book:John Donne: The Major Works

Source: John Donne: The Major Works

“The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.”

Men Anxiety Prison Anxious Governors

Book:George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.”

Self Prison Sentences Serving Jail Dungeons

Author:Cyril Connolly

“Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.”

People Feels Has Beens Soul Home School Gay Prison Intimacy Jail Destroying Public School Slums

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it?”