"One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be"

"When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out"

"I think for Beecher specifically, Keller was with him when his wife died. Beecher had decided after he first got into prison that he had to shut off everybody. You can't let anybody in and you have to become like them and you have to be threatening and all that"

"I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison"

"A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents"

"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom"

"Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control"

"Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever"

"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny"

"In my country we go to prison first and then become President"

"Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization"