“Royal Magistrate: The prisoner wishes to say a word. William Wallace: [shouts loud and long] Freedom!”— Randall Wallace, William Wallace, Mel Gibson, imdb.com
“Every day that he remains a prisoner, the less our name commands respect.”— David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, Tywin Lannister, Charles Dance, imdb.com
“Peggy Blomquist: We got a plan, you know? Constance Heck: The word 'we' is a castle, hon, with a moat and a drawbridge. And you know what gets locked up in castles? Peggy Blomquist: Dragons? Constance Heck: Princesses. Don't be a prisoner of ‘we.’”— Noah Hawley, Peggy Blomquist, Kirsten Dunst, imdb.com
“I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.”— Martha Washington, amazon.com
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”— Lewis B. Smedes, amazon.com
“You can create in the prisoners feelings of boredom, a sense of fear to some degree, you can create a notion of arbitrariness that their life is totally controlled by us, by the system, you, me, and they'll have no privacy... We're going to take away their individuality in various ways. In general w…”— Philip Zimbardo, en.wikipedia.org
“A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!”— Jules Verne, amazon.com
“It makes a difference doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?”— E. M. Forster, amazon.com
“He was a lifelong prisoner on the island of himself. What looked like gentle contours from a distance were in fact sheer cliffs. Sometimes only a little of him was crazy, sometimes nearly all of him, but, as an adult, he was never entirely not crazy. What he'd seen of his id while trying to escape h…”— Jonathan Franzen, amazon.com