Prison Quotes · Page 23

It was hard to play the drums at all when I got out of prison.

— Varg Vikernes

I have been shown in darkness, light [and] have learned that, even in prison, one can be free,

— Kayla Mueller

Obesity is a prison; in the US we spend more to treat type 2 diabetes each year than is spent on education.

— Paul Zane Pilzer

The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.

— Erich Fromm

“It was easy to rack up Evil Overlord points in prison.”

— Cassandra Clare Holly Black

By the way, the food in prison was disgusting. Like, baked beans every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

— Ronnie Radke

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

— Richard Wurmbrand

I'm trying to deal with the thirty years I spent in prison, not the physical, because of existentialism.

— Jedi Mind Tricks

“It's too bad war makes people disappear like chess pieces, and that prisons turn prisoners into movie endings.”

— Major Jackson

Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can…

— Lil Wayne

“You had to be free in your heart. Guilt, fear, anger—they were all their own kinds of prison. You could be out…

— Ronald Cotton

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

— Anonymous

Stack the cards in your favour, and in a casino, you'll get arrested and put in prison, but in business and in…

— Theo Paphitis

“treat you like a criminal,” he said, showing a slide of an inmate in striped prison garb. Then a slide of Bob…

— Walter Isaacson

Our prisons are full of people who are illiterate and innumerate, have been failed by the care system, and often have had…

— Sadiq Khan

While I was in jail, they handcuffed me and took me to a backroom, where a detective from the FBI and a…

— Sherman Austin

I saw the waterboarding device in Cambodia's notorious Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh and did not see another until I was…

— Malcolm Nance

In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people…

— Lee Tergesen

I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“As I stood in the room looking at it for the last time, I felt again the cold metal of the handcuffs…

— Nien Cheng

“In short, the right given to one man to inflict corporal punishment on another is one of the ulcers of society, one…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Students being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in prison-type schools provide a grim reminder of the degree…

— Henry Giroux

I came out publicly as transgender and began hormone replacement therapy while in prison. When I was released, however, there was no…

— Chelsea Manning

I know the air of hopelessness and what people in prison go through.

— Isaac Wright Jr

“Yes, fear was the kind of prison where you made yourself the inmate and the jailer.”

— A.J. Sand

The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars

— Tariq Ramadan

“Man is afraid of prison although he himself consists of cells.”

— Mikhail Turovsky

After I won but then lost my world title I ended up with no money. Then my dad died in prison.

— Shannon Briggs

as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.

— William S. Burroughs

Anytime you have a family member getting out of prison, there's always drama.

— Orlando Jones

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

— Anonymous

Prison guard unions have become the powerful political forces in some states, particularly California.

— Michelle Alexander

Empty your birdcage, empty your aquarium! To love is to give freedom; to love is to refuse the prisons!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

— Maajid Nawaz

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

— Vittorio Alfieri

“I like visiting people in prison. I can say whatever I want to them, and they can’t do anything about it.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“Rooms without a view are like prisons for the people who have to stay in them.”

— Tom DeMarco

From age 16 to 26, I literally became a man in prison so it was influential in shaping me.

— Montel Vontavious Porter

Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities.

— Jamie Fellner