My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
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Refusing to recant his ideas, after being imprisoned in the Tower of London for expressing religous freedoms. (1668 or 1669) Quoted in William Penn, America's First Great Champion for Liberty and Peace by Jim PowellWilliam Penn
In vain we call old notions fudge,
And bend our conscience to our dealing;
The Ten Commandments will not budge,
And stealing will continue stealing.James Russell Lowell
I'd rather be in a grave in Colombia than in prison in the United States.
Pablo Escobar
I was lucky because the same week that I went to prison the Americans crossed the Rhine and cut off the northern part of Holland, so there was no longer any possibility of being shipped out to a concentration camp. The rail lines were cut. So I was in prison in Amsterdam during the very last days of the war. We were sent to the men's prison and the girls were sent to a women's prison in a different place.
Abraham Pais
Such grief might make the mountain stoop,
reverse the waters where they flow,
but cannot burst these ponderous bolts
that block us from the prison cells
crowded with mortal woe...Anna Akhmatova
What then is the chastisement of those who accept it not? To be as they are. Is any discontented with being alone? let him be in solitude. Is any discontented with his parents? let him be a bad son, and lament. Is any discontented with his children? let him be a bad father.—"Throw him into prison!"—What prison?—Where he is already: for he is there against his will; and wherever a man is against his will, that to him is a prison. Thus Socrates was not in prison since he was there with his own consent.
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