“Your mind is your playground or your prison, and you get to choose which one it will be.” — Sanjo Jendayi Copy Share Image
The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard. — George Gilder Copy Share Image
He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up. — Mike Singletary Copy Share Image
To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric. — Danny Sugerman Copy Share Image
I loved to read books in the free world, and there was a lot of time to sit around and do nothing… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs,… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
We will not put our sons in prison for political membership or resisting occupation, because occupation is the reason for the problem. — Said Seyam Copy Share Image
I'm playing somebody who is a recovering drug addict who got out of prison. It takes place in 2 weeks-the 1st 2… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Look, I promise I’m not psychotic. Eccentric and idiosyncratic, but not psychotic. (Sebastian) I’ll bet the prisons are full of men who… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000… — Jean Giono Copy Share Image
Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
It's so important to raise people to grow up to be who they are and not be forced to be who they're… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
“Formerly these harsh cells in which the discipline of the prison leaves the condemned to himself were composed of four stone walls,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“It’s a prison. It’s twenty-four-hour-a-day life in a jail cell. We never get out, not even for one second. All we can… — Clare B. Dunkle Copy Share Image
It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
When I was working on the al-Zawahiri piece, a large part of it published in 'The New Yorker' in 2002, I had… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
Today the Israeli government continues seizures of Palestinian land for settlements, military incursions into surrounding countries and denial of the right of… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
The BIBLE - banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I… — Mike Epps Copy Share Image
“There are many behind bars who are free, and many free who are behind bars.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
I've been working in adult prisons and juvenile prisons for some time. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I won't go back on my decision. I'm not afraid of prison, but there are even worse dangers. — Bidzina Ivanishvili Copy Share Image
“Perhaps life itself occurred as a sort of prison she felt compelled to escape.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage? — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
“you do your own time in prison. You don't do anyone else's time for them.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Everyone is imprisoned, not by four walls but with IDEALS and BELIEFS others have confined us to. — Rey Mellomida Copy Share Image
If there was one senator who could truly empathize with being tortured in prison, it was John McCain. — Bill Browder Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Our hearts are all prison walls when we hold people captive with chains of unforgiveness.” — Ikechukwu Izuakor Copy Share Image
Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
