“Most prisoners are perfectly mentally healthy compared with the paranoia of prison officials.”

“It's high school, man. They compare it to prison in the movie.”

“Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.”

“A prisoner mentality is anything that blames anything outside of you for the pain you have.”

“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.”

“Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.”

“A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.”

“1. Political officials and leaders are to be liquidated. 2. Insofar as they are captured by the troops, an officer with authority to impose disciplinary punishment decides whether the given individual must be liquidated. For such a decision the fact suffices that he is a political official. 3. Political leaders in the troops (Red Army) are not recognized as prisoners of war and are to be liquidated at the latest in the prisoner-of-war transit camps.”

“The cruelest prison of all is the prison of the mind.”

“A well-appointed prison is still a prison.”