“I thought having prisoners would be fun, but it’s like having a pet or an in-law. You can lock them up, then you have to feed them.”— Daniel Handler, Count Olaf, Neil Patrick Harris, imdb.com
“I’m telling you, the guards are the dirtiest gang in this whole place. The only difference between us and them is the badge.”— Paul Scheuring, Fernando Sucre, Amaury Nolasco, imdb.com
“You’re all prisoners. What you call sanity, it’s just a prison in your minds that stops you from seeing that you’re just tiny little cogs in a giant absurd machine. Wake up! Why be a cog? Be free like us. Just remember, smile.”— Ken Woodruff, Jerome Valeska, Cameron Monaghan, imdb.com
“It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?”— Joan of Arc, indiana.edu
“Prison is predicated on the idea of social & physical isolation from society. When you can’t hear the voices or listen to the stories of those incarcerated it’s easy to make them into something they’re not.”— Clint Smith, twitter.com
“Choices, Lawrence. You know, you tell yourself you've been at the mercy of mine because it spares you consideration of your own. Because if you did consider your choices you'd be confronted with a truth you could not comprehend—that no choice you ever made was your own. You have always been a prison…”— Ed Brubaker, Jonathan Nolan, imdb.com
“And the free man realizes that there is a real, true world out there that his fellow prisoners, his friends, they don't know.”— Jessica Goldberg, Cal Roberts, Hugh Dancy, imdb.com
“Even when they unlock the door to this prison, we are still prisoners.”— Jessica Goldberg, Reggie, Steven Conrad Moore, imdb.com
“Mirrors on the ceiling, The pink champagne on ice And she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device' And in the master's chambers, They gathered for the feast They stab it with their steely knives, But they just can't kill the beast. Last thing I remember, I was Running for the door I…”— Eagles, youtube.com