"You are only a prisoner when you surrender."
- Tad Williams
"The eyes of god are upon you, I mean the eyes of society. We are prisoners of societies in which we live"
- Bangambiki Habyarimana
"We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Imprisoned peace sets the war free"
- Munia Khan
"What was a prisoner of war anyway? Less than a man, just material to be used to make the railway, like the teak sleepers and steel rails and dog spikes."
- Richard Flanagan
"This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real. Everyone dreamed past and future dreams, of slavery and redemption, of improbable paradises, of equ..."
- Primo Levi
"A year ago I was being kept in this cell and I didn't want to kill anyone, not even the people who held me prisoner. I just wanted to escape, just wanted freedom. And now I have that; I have my freedo..."
- Sally Green
"Is it possible that my walls are specifically erected and intentionally reinforced out of the fear that God calls me to an existence without walls? And if this is so, do I realize that I am the warden..."
- Craig D. Lounsbrough
"The hour of our release draws near."
- Nick Spencer
"The prisoners of the cultures are mostly the women! House is the name of the prison!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan