“Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilisation.”
“While there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
“Mr. Emerson visited Thoreau at the jail, and the meeting between the two philosophers must have been interesting and somewhat dramatic. The account of the meeting was told me by Miss Maria Thoreau [Henry Thoreau's aunt]—"Henry, why are you here?" Waldo, why are you not here?”
“The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.”
“The newspapers are gonna be tough on you. And prison is very, very hard on people who hurt kids. If you get the opportunity, you should kill yourself.”
“As if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.”
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Prisoner es una serie de televisión de drama carcelario danesa de 2023 protagonizada por Sofie Gråbøl y David Dencik. Compuesta por seis episodios, la serie fue creada por el autor y dramaturgo danés Kim Fupz Aakeson, inspirada en su novela de 2021 Fangeleg.