Prison Quotes
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Prison Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
this free-man's prison known as life.
— Vanessa Ronan
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
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