Fela Kuti Quotes

It's [Jail's] like being at school. Except you can't leave.

Being in jail is difficult too because it's like being in a graveyard, you can't do much.

I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse.

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.

In the internment camp, there was nothing to do.

Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.

I really don't like being in jail.

One of the frustrations of prison life, which is also one of its intended consequences, is that the prisoner is made ineffective. He is unable to be of much use. The aim is to render him powerless.

I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don't pay attention to what's going on outside of jail, because it's all beyond my control.

Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle is useless - that's what hell must be like.

The cell door slammed behind Rubishov.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

To arrive is to be in prison.

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

Imagine how frustrating it is, being completely locked up and watching your family leave, your wife and children, and not being able to do anything about it.

You can keep a person locked up too long.

When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.

The world is a penal institution.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

I did get to Beersheba [in Israel], but only to prison there. It was actually very nice, with television and free international calls. I would recommend it even over many hotels I have known. It was a shame to leave.

I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.

Being in a five-by-seven every day for 365 days a year is more than what the average man could stand. You weren't built to be in a cage that long.

When you live your whole life in a prison freedom can be so dull

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