When we begin to build walls of prejudice, hatred, pride, and self-indulgence around ourselves, we are more surely imprisoned than any prisoner behind concrete walls and iron bars.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Many of us are in are in our own prisons that aren't made of iron bars.
I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.
People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world.
You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.
Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.
Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.
But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.
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