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'''[[w:Prison|Prison]]''' |
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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''=== |
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:<small>Quotes reported in ''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations'' (1922), p. 634.</small> |
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* In durance vile here must I wake and weep,<br>And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep. |
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* 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. |
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** [[Robert Burns]], ''Epistle from Esopus to Maria'' in Chambers' ''Burns' Life and Work'', Volume IV. |
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** [[Mumia Abu-Jamal]], ''All Things Censored'' (2001, Seven Stories Press), pp. 55-56 |
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* Stone Walls do not a Prison make, Nor Iron bars a Cage... |
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* 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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* 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. |
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* 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. |
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** [[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. |
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** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[The Tempest]]'' (c. 1610-1612), II:2, [[w:Prospero|Prospero]], speaking to [[w:Ariel (Shakespeare)|Ariel]] |
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* Prison'd in a parlour snug and small,<br>Like bottled wasps upon a southern wall. |
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* Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all. |
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** [[William Cowper]], ''Retirement'', line 493. |
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* "And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison." |
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* 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. |
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** [[Charles Dickens]], ''[[Pickwick Papers]]'' (1836), Chapter XL. |
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* As if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel. |
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* 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. |
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** Ezekiel. X. 10. |
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**{{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}} |
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* In durance vile. |
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* The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. |
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** [[William Kendrick]], ''Falstaff's Wedding'', Act I, scene 2. [[Burke]], ''Thoughts on the Present Discontent''. |
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** [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]], ''[[w:The House of the Dead|The House of the Dead]]'' (1861) |
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* That which the world miscalls a jail,<br> A private closet is to me.<br> * * * * *<br>Locks, bars, and solitude together met,<br>Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret. |
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* Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons? |
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** 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. |
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** [[Michel Foucault]], ''[[Discipline & Punish]]'' (1977) as translated by Alan Sheridan, p. 228 |
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* Stone walls do not a prison make,<br> Nor iron bars a cage,<br>Minds innocent and quiet take<br>That for an hermitage. |
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* ''Doubles grilles à gros cloux,<br>Triples portes, forts verroux,<br> Aux âmes vraiment méchantes<br>Vous représentez l'enfer:<br> Mais aux âmes innocentes<br>Vous n'etes que du bois, des pierres, du fer.'' |
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** Fast closed with double grills<br> And triple gates—the cell<br> To wicked souls is hell;<br> But to a mind that's innocent<br> 'Tis only iron, wood and stone. |
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** [[Pelisson]], written on the walls of his cell in the Bastile (c. 1661). |
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* 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. |
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* I have been studying how I may compare<br>This prison where I live unto the world:<br>And for because the world is populous<br>And here is not a creature but myself,<br>I cannot do it; yet I'll hammer it out. |
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Revision as of 17:05, 6 October 2011
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.- William Cowper, Retirement, line 493.
- "And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison."
- Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers (1836), Chapter XL.
- 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.
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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.- Richard Lovelace, To Althea, from Prison, IV.
- 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 (c. 1661).
- Fast closed with double grills
- 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.- William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar (1599), Act I, scene 3, line 93.
- 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.- William Shakespeare, Richard II (c. 1595), Act V, scene 5, line 1.