Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Many of us are in are in our own prisons that aren't made of iron bars.
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.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
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.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
Prison works.
That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone.
When you're in prison, the progress of the outside world doesn't necessarily translate inside prison walls. You don't have any rights; it just doesn't progress along the same timeline.
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.