Prison Quotes · Page 19

“It is a common experience among jailbirds to wake up and wonder why they are in jail”

— Kurt Vonnegut

When you're in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.

— Kevin Gates

Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times!

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Prison for me is not taking away my freedom, but taking away my coffee.”

— Sotero M Lopez II

“She knew that the freedom was in herself, just as the prison had been.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails.

— David Gerrold

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

— Jim Bakker

The leading members of ISIS were either tortured in US military prisons or in the prisons of the Shi'a government which the…

— Yanar Mohammed

In Europe, Socialism is just another political party. It just means that government takes over certain things like hospitals, prisons, military and…

— Bill Maher

Playing the role of Christ was like being in a prison. It was the hardest part I've ever had to play in…

— Max von Sydow

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

— A. R. Ammons

Actually, one Anthem cue is a good example of the process. There is a four-minute sequence of music in Anthem, which underscores…

— Jeff Britting

But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first…

— Pete Seeger

“This too I know - and wise it were If each could know the same - That every prison that men build…

— Oscar Wilde

“Smoke puffed from the open V of his shirt. And still the humming of the electricity went on and on, filling my…

— Stephen King

I've been thinking that school, or certainly the traditional English public school model, is like a prison, in that you can't get…

— Rutger Bregman

The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made,…

— Michael Vick

There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is…

— George Bernard Shaw

In return for financial support will advocate admission of Jews to England; This however impossible while Charles living. Charles cannot be executed…

— Oliver Cromwell

The War on Drugs has failed - but it’s worse than that. It is actively harming our society. Violent crime is thriving…

— Sting

Prison is an important part of life. We can't have violent people running around in the streets. (3 out of 4 federal…

— Howard Dean

The spirit of Burzum never changed, but my ability to make music changed dramatically when I was imprisoned. It is more or…

— Varg Vikernes

There's a kind of decadence about all this: If 9/11 was really an inside job, you wouldn't be driving around with a…

— Mark Steyn

[Some men are shortsighted, so] going to prison or going to hell just doesn't matter to these men.

— Rodney Stark

I've spent a lot of time in prisons, first doing legal work and later, teaching.

— Peter Orner

An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.

— Joe Biden

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

— Saadi

Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.

— Tyler Perry

“The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.”

— Sir Walter Raleigh

I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.

— Daniel Defoe

See, you're out your mind tryin' to face tha God. Your rhyme is like an empty prison...a waste of bars.

— Lord Finesse

We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Azzedine Alaia

“Compared to Hell, this jail cell is like a five-star hotel.”

— M.F. Hopkins

It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.

— Molly Ivins

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

— Madonna Ciccone

When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.

— Nelson Mandela

“Freedom’s an illusion. We all live in prisons of our own making.”

— Skye Warren

“Turn the cell into a classroom and the prison into a university”

— Khalil Osiris