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Quote by Thomas Hobbes
He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, t

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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The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. – Thomas Hobbes

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Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage; minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage. – Richard Lovelace

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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. – Evelyn Waugh

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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. – Eldridge Cleaver

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I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesnt know where to die. – Antonio Gramsci

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