Why inspire in us a horror of our being?... To look upon the universe as a prison cell and all men as criminals about to be execut...ed is the idea of a fanatic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your kind doesn't just kill men. You murder their spirits, you strangle their last breath of hope and freedom, so that you, the ch...osen few, can rule your slaves in ease and luxury. You're a sadist just like the others, Heiser, with no resource but violence and no feeling but fear, the kind you're feeling now. You're drowning, Heiser, drowning in the ocean of blood around this barren little island you call the New Order.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wi...ld our imaginations can be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I... had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoo...n concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to "The March of the Women" from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual ...through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that ...I have nothing now or in the future to be ashamed of in this situation. That, at bottom, I myself have in a certain sense asked for this detention and this sentence, because I've always refused to change my opinion, for which I would be willing to give my life and not just remain in prison. That therefore I can only be tranquil and content with myself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »