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But instead of feeling safe and secure behind their armed walls they found themselves trapped in the prison they had built with their own fears. — Katie J. Davis

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

Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is. — Adam Ant

She didn't realize she was in a prison until she collided with the bars. — Joyce Rachelle

I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in You. — Rumi

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

Over months of being with him, my prison had become my sanctuary, and now that I was free, the world was my prison. There was nowhere left to run. — Kitty Thomas

After all of the reforms that he implemented, Ohio's prison system showed the lowest rates of recidivism in the nation. — Tag Powell

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

Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live. — Jack Kerouac

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

I'd kill for any one of my friends. Thankfully for the overpopulated prison system, I don't have any friends. — Jarod Kintz

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death. — Charles Caleb Colton

Mexico's No. 1 drug lord has escaped from prison and may be headed to the U.S. So Donald Trump was wrong. They ARE sending us their best. — Conan O'Brien

Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ? — Michel Foucault

Prison is a still point in a turning world, and it is very easy to remain in the same place in jail while the world moves on. — Nelson Mandela

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

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

Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom. — Robert D. Hare

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

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor. — George Bernard Shaw

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable. — Karl Kraus

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

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. — Bobby Scott

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

I'm playing somebody who is a recovering drug addict who got out of prison. It takes place in 2 weeks-the 1st 2 weeks I'm out of prison. — Maggie Gyllenhaal

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

You don't have to be very bright to carry a handbarrow. So the squad leader gave such work to people who'd been in positions of authority. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be less painful. — Terry Pratchett

Freedom or prison
what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Shut up in the prison of their own consciences. — James Ussher

A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor. — Jeremiah Denton

I am often impressed with those that admit their ignorance, for it is the first step towards breaking out of the prison called freedom. — Lionel Suggs

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. — Thomas Jefferson

Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer. — Dorothy Rowe

Nik gripped his fork so tightly his knuckles turned white. His temper flared up like a beast inside him, clawing at the walls of its fleshy prison. — Quinn Anderson

The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day. — Eugene V. Debs

Even a prison the size of a universe is still a prison. And it is every prisoner's duty to escape. — John C. Wright

You can endure any sort of prison if you can apprehend a window in the dark. — Gregory Maguire

It was clearly a prisoner's craftwork; that is, the most painstaking work in the world, for prisoners have nowhere to hurry to. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Make not thyself the judge of any man. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In 2006, the state of California spent $3.5 billion on the state university system. It spent $9.9 billion on the state prison system. — Ken Robinson

Cage an eagle and it will bite at the wires, be they of
iron or of gold. — Henrik Ibsen

The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution. — John F. Kennedy

Typically, you get a year in prison for making a threat to assassinate the president. — Megyn Kelly

Routine is not a prison, but the way to freedom from time. — May Sarton

You familiar with prison rules, Ali-gator?
Stupid nicknames. They were the equivalent of verbal fungus. You couldn't ever get rid of them. — Gena Showalter

A liberal education ... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation. — Robert M. Hutchins

The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Prison house for the soul — Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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