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I've definitely become more aware of the penal system and more aware of what life could be like inside a prison. — Dean Winters

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting. — Ovid

Depression is a prison to which you have the key except you never think to look for it. — Kevin Hearne

It was massive. A blurting, busting, backfire! A flabbergasting, fire-breathing, flub-explosion! A propelling, paint-stripping, prison-break! — Ferguson Fartworthy

Put a petty criminal in maximum security prison and he'll come out knowing how to rape and pillage. — Michelle Hodkin

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty — Benjamin Franklin

If anything, my physical death would be, for me, a form of salvation, It would liberate me for ever from this hopeless prison, this pain of being me. — Haruki Murakami

I refuse to stay a prisoner to my body. I am going to free myself. — Leigh Hershkovich

The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison. — Oscar Wilde

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall. — Denis Healey

Because you can't kiss your way out of prison and I knew that for sure. For dead sure. — Elliott Chaze

I often wondered if I'd be better off in prison, until I met that ray of sunshine - Claire MacKenna — Scarlett Grove

{...]I began to feel tears of frustration build up in my eyes, yearning to free themselves from their glandular prisons. — Andrea Bouchaud

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair. — Clarence Darrow

The best stories will come from jail, the people which are in the prison, also and from the victims. — Deyth Banger

It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.) — Donald Rumsfeld

Danbury wasnt a prison, it was a crime school. I went in with a Bachelor of marijuana, came out with a Doctorate of cocaine. — George Jung

Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted. — Seneca The Younger

Why would anyone expect Tyson to come out smarter? He went to prison for four years, not Princeton. — Lou Duva

From May 1717 to April 1718, Voltaire sat comfortably in the infamous prison insulting the Regent and reading Homer. — Jessica Powell

The Corrupt Officer has a Price and the Honest Officer has Integrity — Gary York

I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series. — James Belushi

During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem. — Michael Vick

Sometimes the longer you are inside a prison, the harder it is to fathom what is possible beyond its walls. — Suki Kim

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself. — Naguib Mahfouz

Guilt was its own prison. — Richelle Mead

The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say. — Criss Jami

It was a night so beautiful that your soul seemed hardly able to bear the prison of the body. — W. Somerset Maugham

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger. — Philip Emeagwali

Prison had a way of draining people of their hope and humanity. But Harlan didn't have to worry about that because he'd gone in empty. — Bernice L. McFadden

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget. — Mitchell Burgess

In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison. — Theodor W. Adorno

This world is a prison for the Faithful, but a Paradise for unbelievers — Anonymous

Naked in solitary prison cell he looks down at a hard-on. — Allen Ginsberg

Shukhov had figured it all out. If he didn't sign he'd be shot. If he signed he'd still get a chance to live. So he signed. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Only prisoners were ever granted easy passage into a prison. — Scott Lynch

We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us. — Heather Marsh

You see, Count, I have the Emperor's prison planet, Salusa Secundus, to inspire me. The — Frank Herbert

If you desecrate a white grave, you wind up sitting in prison. But desecrate an Indian grave, and you get a Ph.D. — Gerald Vizenor

Sadness puts my heart in a prison. — Liane Holliday Willey

The last place I would ever want to go is prison. — Martha Stewart

What are you doing here?" [ndr prison]
Selling Girl Scout cookies," I said. "Want some? The Samoas are terrific."
(Max II to Max) — James Patterson

When you are born into bondage you can't see the prison. — Bryant McGill

Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created. — Eugene V. Debs

I Don't Want To Live Long. I Would Rather Get The Death Penalty Than Spend The Rest Of My Life In Prison — Theodore Kaczynski

When you're in prison, you can't do anything about what's happening outside. — Fela Kuti

Even if I was in prison, I could be free in my head. I can adapt easily. — Azzedine Alaia

It was nothing more than a beautiful prison, run by a psychopath. — Blake Crouch

Nothing is worse in prison than the consciousness of one's innocenc; it prevents acclimatizatin and undermines one's morale ... — Arthur Koestler

I know my worth. Never again will I condemn myself to the prison of a bad relationship. — Steve Maraboli

She was his only escape, And she was his only prison. — Akshay Vasu

As if familiar paths traced in summer skies could lead as easily to prison as to the sleep of the innocent. — Albert Camus

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration. — Barry McCaffrey

Nobody is free ... Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons. — Ted Simon

Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature. — Ovid

As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism. — Maajid Nawaz

We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer. — Marian Wright Edelman

If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison. — Chaka Khan

Oh, to be the author of prison letters. It's a young girl's dream come true. — Jenny B. Jones

He would live alone and broken, in a prison he could never escape, created by the brother he had betrayed. — Julia Mills

In prison, illusions can offer comfort. — Nelson Mandela

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both. — Nelson Mandela

The prison scandal is really hurting President Bush's poll numbers. In fact, I hear he's already working on his concession smirk. — Craig Kilborn

For me, it's all about being in a tiny room with little windows. It's almost like you have to be in a prison. — Madonna Ciccone

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard. — Barry Pepper

Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace — Rumi

It can be nice and still be a prison." "I — Kim Stanley Robinson

The cruelest prison of all is the prison of the mind. — Piri Thomas

When you're very anxious, you end up trapped in your head all the time - the prison without walls. Your — Barry McDonagh

Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium. — John Milton

Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought. — Arthur Desmond

Somewhere along the way of my illustrious high school career I traded my humanity for a prison of popularity. — Jean Haus

Making Disciples through the Transforming Power of Jesus Christ in the Spirit of Excellence! — Hans Blunk

Because this is a prison, and there's a prison warden pretending to read a book, just to make others think she's an intelligent woman. — Paulo Coelho

We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions. — Eugene V. Debs

As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again. — George Sand

This house is a prison, a suburban Alcatraz. — Heather Demetrios

The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think. — David Icke

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write. — Mary Archer

When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you? — Jim Bakker

You're still in prison if you do nothing better in freedom. — Toba Beta

this free-man's prison known as life. — Vanessa Ronan

A real prison breakfast" I said.
"Yeah, but we are free."
And that summed it up. — Patti Smith

I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison. — Bryan Stevenson

In Russia, we have a long tradition of compassion for people who have been put into labor camps or prison. — Lyudmila Alexeyeva

The way to reform has always led through prison. — Emmeline Pankhurst

Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million. — John Grisham

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison. — Jeffrey Archer

I told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose, — Edward Snowden

You have to remember, William. It may make the difference between freedom and half a lifetime in prison. — Kenneth Eade

The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt. — Plato

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self. — Cyril Connolly

She was free in her prison of passion. — Oscar Wilde

Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom? — Cynthia Ozick

I have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison. — Richard Wurmbrand

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not. — Rand Paul