Isaac Leib Peretz - Prison Quotes

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The soul is imprisoned in the body, and the Lord... built two windows in the wall of the prison... Unfortunately, the windows have curtains—eyelids; and a man whose soul is impure, feeling himself scrutinized, lets down the curtains and conceals the soul.

Isaac Leib Peretz

I fear you. As victors, you may become the bureaucracy: doling out to each his bit as in a poorhouse, assigning to each his task as in a prison. And you will exterminate the creator of new worlds,—the free human will, and stop up the purest well of human happiness—the power of the one to face thousands, to stand up to peoples and generations.

Isaac Leib Peretz

With the same bricks one may erect... a palace or a prison.... The same letters are used in Holy Writ and heretical works.

Isaac Leib Peretz