
“Prisons are built with stones of law; brothels with bricks of religion.”
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 21
Fiction, A Clockwork Orange (1962)
“Prisons are built with stones of law; brothels with bricks of religion.”
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 21
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
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)
“A well-appointed prison is still a prison.”
Source: God’s War (2011), Chapter 4 (p. 42).
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.”
“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”
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.”
Nuns Fret Not, l. 8 (1806).