“Only the man who has known freedom
Can define his prison.”

“It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.”

Malcolm X book The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.”

Robin Hobb book Assassin's Apprentice

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.”

Aung San Suu Kyi (1945) State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy

“Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.”

Arthur Desmond (1859–1929) New Zealnd writer

“The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.”

Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist

“Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.”

Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist

“A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.”

Jeffrey Archer (1940) English author and former politician

“Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen the horror in the round and learned at last that it speaks to his inmost heart, only that man can dance. - The judge”

Cormac McCarthy (1933) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter

“It doesn't have to be that bad,' Chade said quietly. 'Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.”

Robin Hobb book Assassin's Apprentice