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Prisons are built with stones of law; brothels with bricks of religion.
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The quote uses building materials as a metaphor for social forces. “Stones of law” suggests that legal rules help create and maintain prisons. “Bricks of religion” links brothels to religious ideas or institutions, presenting both law and religion as parts of structures society builds. The comparison is deliberately provocative, though the exact criticism of religion is left open.
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