Prison
A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o/ confinement, restraint, or safe custody.
Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority.
To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.
To bind (together); to enchain.
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Prison Quotations
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston Churchill
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
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Henry David Thoreau
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Nelson Mandela
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. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. Thompson
Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.
Jim Morrison
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
W. C. Fields
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
H. L. Mencken
Prison Translations
prison in Dutch is nor, kerker, gevangenis
prison in Latin is claustrum, carcer
prison in Norwegian is fengsel
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