Germaine Greer Quotes

So for you people who are filled with fear that I might someday be released: breathe easy, I don't see it happening.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

The only time you can be completely free from risk is when you're in prison.

I really don't like being in jail.

We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.

Why do people hanker for the home? - security, safety. But in the name of security and safety, they don't make homes, they make prisons - and they are the jailed and they are the jailers, but because they have the keys in their own hands, they think they are free.

Dayodhuam: I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

You can keep a person locked up too long.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.

Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.

300 was the biggest hurdle. They tried to hold us against our will.

There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together.

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

To arrive is to be in prison.

So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name

A caged canary is safe but not free.

Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards

I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and hostile to, the idea of escape?' and gave the obvious answer: jailers.

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.