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The Prisoner

«We reveal the fullness of our devotion to individualism by keeping it as a reward for full participation in society. For the prisoner, the chronically ill, the bedridden old and the destitute, we reserve the forced collective life.»
«In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.»
«To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.»
«Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.»
«For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth; / To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death; / To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem; / When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.»
«I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, / With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; / Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.»
«The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.»
«The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.»
«The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try»