“Prisons are built with stones of law; brothels with bricks of religion.”
William Blake book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 21
“Prison religion'…”
Fiction, A Clockwork Orange (1962)
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Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Abu Musab Zarqawi (1966–2006) Jordanian jihadist
Calling for the release of Irish Catholic charity worker Margaret Hassan. Zarqawi in his own words http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5058474.stm BBC News (November 2004)
“The cruelest prison of all is the prison of the mind.”
Piri Thomas (1928–2011) Puerto Rican poet
“A well-appointed prison is still a prison.”
Kameron Hurley (1980) American writer
Source: God’s War (2011), Chapter 4 (p. 42).
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.”
Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer
“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1930s, Address to the Governing Board of the Pan American Union (1939)
Context: There is no fatality which forces the Old World towards new catastrophe. Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. They have within themselves the power to become free at any moment.
“Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.”
Variant: Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.
Source: V for Vendetta (1989)
“In truth the prison, unto which we doom
Ourselves, no prison is.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Nuns Fret Not, l. 8 (1806).