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'''[[w:Prison|Prison]]'''
A '''[[w:prison|prison]]''' is a place in which individuals are physically confined and deprived of a range of personal freedoms.

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===''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations''===
:<small>Quotes reported in ''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations'' (1922), p. 634.</small>


* In durance vile here must I wake and weep,<br>And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
* At the risk of quoting [[w:Mephistopheles|Mephistopheles]] I repeat: Welcome to hell. A hell erected and maintained by human-governments, and blessed by black robed judges. A hell that allows you to see your loved ones, but not to touch them. A hell situated in America's boondocks, hundreds of miles away from most families. A white, rural hell, where most of the captives are black and urban. It is an American way of death.
** [[Robert Burns]], Epistle from Esopus to Maria in Chambers' Burns' Life and Work, Volume IV.
** [[Mumia Abu-Jamal]], ''All Things Censored'' (2001, Seven Stories Press), pp. 55-56

* Stone Walls do not a Prison make, Nor Iron bars a Cage...
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** [[Richard Lovelace]], "To Althea, From Prison" (1642)

* Might I but through my prison once a day<br/> Behold this maid: all corners else o' the earth<br/>Let liberty make use of; space enough<br/>Have I in such a prison.
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** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[The Tempest]]'', I:2, Ferdinand


* Whene'er with haggard eyes I view<br> This dungeon that I'm rotting in,<br>I think of those companions true<br>Who studied with me at the U-<br> Niversity of Göttingen.
* And, for thou wast a spirit too delicate<br/>To act her earthy and abhorr'd commands,<br/>Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee,<br/>By help of her more potent ministers<br/>And in her most unmitigable rage,<br/>Into a cloven pine; within which rift<br/>Imprison'd thou didst painfully remain<br/>A dozen years; within which space she died<br/> And left thee there; where thou didst vent thy groans<br/>As fast as mill-wheels strike.
** George Canning—Song. Of One Eleven Years in Prison. Found in The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin. Also in Burlesque Plays and Poems, edited by Henry Morley.
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[The Tempest]]'', II:2, [[w:Prospero|Prospero]], speaking to [[w:Ariel (Shakespeare)|Ariel]]


* Prison'd in a parlour snug and small,<br>Like bottled wasps upon a southern wall.
* Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.
** [[William Cowper]], Retirement, line 493.
** [[w:Alan Moore|Alan Moore]], ''[[V for Vendetta]]''


* "And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison."
* I never saw sad men who looked<br/>With such a wistful eye<br/>Upon that little tent of blue<br/>We prisoners called the sky,<br/>And at every careless cloud that passed<br/>In happy freedom by.
** [[Oscar Wilde]], ''[[The Ballad of Reading Gaol]]'' (1898)
** [[Charles Dickens]], ''[[Pickwick Papers]]'' (1836), Chapter XL.


* As if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
* Over the past three decades, the number of prison inmates in the United States has increased by more than 600%, leaving it the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world. During this time, incarceration has changed from a punishment reserved primarily for the most heinous offenders to a much greater range of crimes and a much larger segment of the population.
** Ezekiel. X. 10.
**{{citation|author=Devah Pager|title=The Mark of a Criminal Record|publisher=The American Journal of Sociology|volume=108|number=5|date=Mar., 2003|pages=937-975}}


* In durance vile.
* The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
** William Kendrick—Falstaff's Wedding, Act I, scene 2. Burke—Thoughts on the Present Discontent.
** [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]], ''[[w:The House of the Dead|The House of the Dead]]'' (1861)


* That which the world miscalls a jail,<br> A private closet is to me.
* Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?
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** [[Michel Foucault]], ''[[Discipline & Punish]]'' (1977) as translated by Alan Sheridan, p. 228
Locks, bars, and solitude together met,<br>Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret.
** Attributed to Sir Roger L'Estrange. Also to Lord Capel. Found in the New Foundling Hospital for Wit. (Ed. 1786), IV. 40, as a supplementary stanza. See Notes and Queries, April 10, 1909, p. 288.


* Stone walls do not a prison make,<br> Nor iron bars a cage,<br>Minds innocent and quiet take
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That for an hermitage.
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** [[Richard Lovelace]], To Althea, from Prison, IV.


* Doubles grilles à gros cloux,<br>Triples portes, forts verroux,<br> Aux âmes vraiment méchantes
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Vous représentez l'enfer:<br> Mais aux âmes innocentes
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Vous n'etes que du bois, des pierres, du fer.
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Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates—the cell
To wicked souls is hell;<br> But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.
** Pelisson—Written on the walls of his cell in the Bastile. (About 1661).


* Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,<br>Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,<br>Can be retentive to the strength of spirit;<br>But life, being weary of these worldly bars,<br>Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
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** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Cæsar]]'' (1599), Act I, scene 3, line 93.


* I have been studying how I may compare
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This prison where I live unto the world:<br>And for because the world is populous
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And here is not a creature but myself,<br>I cannot do it; yet I'll hammer it out.
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** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Richard II (play)|Richard II]]'' (c. 1595), Act V, scene 5, line 1.
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Revision as of 23:56, 28 August 2011

Prison

Sourced

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 634.
  • In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
    And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
    • Robert Burns, Epistle from Esopus to Maria in Chambers' Burns' Life and Work, Volume IV.
  • Whene'er with haggard eyes I view
    This dungeon that I'm rotting in,
    I think of those companions true
    Who studied with me at the U-
    Niversity of Göttingen.
    • George Canning—Song. Of One Eleven Years in Prison. Found in The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin. Also in Burlesque Plays and Poems, edited by Henry Morley.
  • Prison'd in a parlour snug and small,
    Like bottled wasps upon a southern wall.
  • As if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
    • Ezekiel. X. 10.
  • In durance vile.
    • William Kendrick—Falstaff's Wedding, Act I, scene 2. Burke—Thoughts on the Present Discontent.
  • 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.

    • Attributed to Sir Roger L'Estrange. Also to Lord Capel. Found in the New Foundling Hospital for Wit. (Ed. 1786), IV. 40, as a supplementary stanza. See Notes and Queries, April 10, 1909, p. 288.
  • Stone walls do not a prison make,
    Nor iron bars a cage,
    Minds innocent and quiet take
 That for an hermitage.
  • Doubles grilles à gros cloux,
    Triples portes, forts verroux,
    Aux âmes vraiment méchantes

Vous représentez l'enfer:
Mais aux âmes innocentes Vous n'etes que du bois, des pierres, du fer. 

 Fast closed with double grills
   And triple gates—the cell
   To wicked souls is hell;
  But to a mind that's innocent
 'Tis only iron, wood and stone.
    • Pelisson—Written on the walls of his cell in the Bastile. (About 1661).
  • 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.
  • I have been studying how I may compare

This prison where I live unto the world:
And for because the world is populous And here is not a creature but myself,
I cannot do it; yet I'll hammer it out.

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