#391

Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?
Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish

#298

I do not feel loss for my arrest…
I do not feel loss for the clandestinity …
I do not feel loss that I am imprisoned…
I do not feel loss for the Struggle that we conduct…
Michalis Nikolopoulos, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire : Imprisoned Members Cell

#287

But hey, nobody said it was going to be easy – if it was easy they wouldn’t call it ‘struggle’ would they?

Mark Barnsley, former anarchist prisoner

#280

People were in prison so that prices could be free.

Eduardo Galeano

#164

Have not prisons – which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe – always been universities of crime?

Peter Kropotkin

#151

Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion.

Wiliam Blake

#121

Until all are free all are imprisoned.

Anonymous

#58

We owe it to ourselves to bite on our shackles even if it is that we die biting. Because we are nothing more then our own choices.

Panayiotis Masouras, Greek prisoner

#17

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson