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“Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion.”

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Blake is in the Proverbs of Hell, where the reversals are the point, and this one accuses two institutions of the same method. It is the sharpest institutional critique in the corpus and it is deliberately unadorned.

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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