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Quote by Oscar Wilde
I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all tha

I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in gaol is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long. – Oscar Wilde

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. – Oscar Wilde

Category:
Death
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Oscar Wilde
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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true. – Oscar Wilde

Category:
Martyr, Martyrdom
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Oscar Wilde
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Other Quotes from
Prison
category

A fly and a flea in a flue
Were imprisoned, so what could they do?
Said the Flea, Let us fly!
Said the Fly, Let us flee!
So they fled through a flaw in the flue. – Anon.

Category:
Prison

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. – Jean Genet

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Prison

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. – Thomas Hobbes

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Prison

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. – Horace Mann

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Prison

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Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I – Muhammad Ali

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Protest

When Death hath poured oblivion through my veins,
And brought me home, as all are brought, to lie
In that vast house, common to serfs and Thanes,
I shall not die, I shall not utterly die,
For beauty born of beauty– that remains. – Madison Cawein

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Grief, Grieving

Its hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell em theyre irresponsible and lazy. And whos gonna wanna do that? Because thats what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period. – Bill OReilly

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work

Poetry is what gets lost in translation. – Robert Frost

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Poetry