Prison Quotes · Page 18

What they say about being in prison is true. That moment when the door closes, time stands still.

— Joey Barton

“Not all prisons are made of iron bars, some are made of feather beds.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

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

— william blake

'The prison' begins well before its doors. It begins as soon as you leave your house - and even before.

— Michel Foucault

We buried ourselves under the jail. Without shovels, and dirt under our nails.

— Jean Grae

We must do better by offenders who are sent to prison to make them less likely to return.

— David Lidington

There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.

— Pasquier Quesnel

Scientists are the enemies of tradition , and tradition own all the prisons. - Victor Vigny

— Eoin Colfer

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

— Arthur Koestler

You wake up one day and you realize that all these years have gone by and I have this mortgage and I…

— Lynn Shelton

“Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“You think that’s what Mouse wants? You in jail? He’s not the pile of ashes we’re going to put in the ground.…

— Debra Anastasia

“prisoners come across to us. They seem nervous and fearful, though most of them are big fellows with beards—they look like meek,…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“You undergo your own incarceration. You may witness your demise piece by piece. You may be one kind of fool who never…

— Louise Erdrich

For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all…

— Anonymous

At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any…

— Rosa Parks

Oh, the inmates and the prisoners I found they were my kind And it was there inside the bars I found my…

— Bob Dylan

Christians are meant to have the same vocation as their King, that of cross-bearers. It is this conscience of a high calling…

— Richard Wurmbrand

In this prison camp, the Gestapo state brain-police planet Earth, what is normal is insane and what is insane is normal. But…

— Frederick Lenz

It's all the stuff I've been through in my life. From family struggles, people doubting me, things I went through as a…

— Derrick Lewis

“He said it was as if Tommy had produced a key which fit a cage in the back of his mind, a…

— Stephen King

Former Enron founder Ken Lay and CEO Jeffrey Skilling found guilty in the Enron case. Ken Lay is so guilty I'm surprised…

— Jay Leno

When you work with an actor, it's cool because they know what it's like to be directed themselves. Jodie directed a scene…

— Laura Prepon

I went to visit Alcatraz years ago when I was on tour with the Pistols, and I really liked the atmosphere of…

— John Lydon

I didn't have any shrimp the whole time I was in prison.

— Da Brat

“Sometimes I feel like a normal person. Sometimes I forget I’m on parole, that I’m not really free.”

— Jennifer Lane

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

— Seneca the Younger

TV's a big deal in prison. A big deal. People watch it nonstop.

— Abby Lee Miller

Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.

— Will Rogers

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

— Eugene V. Debs

I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison.

— Freddy Fender

I went to jail. I looked like one of those savings-and-loan guys leaving the jail house.

— Dave Winfield

Every time that I have ever tried to help a woman out, I have been incarcerated.

— Jose Canseco

My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.

— Maajid Nawaz

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

— Nelson Mandela

Jail was a result of me not taking time for myself. So I was forced to take some time for myself.

— Christian Slater

“We have more prisoners locked up on drug charges than the continent of Europe has in total prisoners. It’s”

— Andrew Heaton

I've been going to visit people in prison since I was a kid.

— Yo Gotti

I want to look at the community I came from and what role incarceration has played there.

— Roger Ross Williams