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One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)

Most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison. (Quote by - Sir John Lubbock)

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release. (Quote by - Germaine Greer)

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking ... is freedom. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)

A mind enclosed in language is in prison. (Quote by - Simone Weil)

That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me. Locks, bars, and solitude together met, Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret. (Quote by - William Kendrick)

It's best that I hide my real personality. I cannot tell you what it is because I don't want to go to prison. (Quote by - Gianfranco Zola)

Past: Our cradle, not our prison, and there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation; for continuation, not repetition. (Quote by - Israel Zangwill)

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison. (Quote by - Robert Burchfield)

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison. (Quote by - Tim Allen)

Satan's friendship reaches to the prison door. (Quote by - Turkish proverb)

And a bird-cage, sir, said Sam. Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)

I do not think of the prison population in terms of an ideal number. We will not be constrained by some artificial level. (Quote by - Ann Widdecombe)

A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals. (Quote by - Ronnie Corbett)

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