Prison Quotes · Page 25

“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once”

— Malcolm Gladwell

Let's see how friendly you get when you're sharing a prison cell!

— Zapp Brannigan

“I existed in a world that never is , a prison of the mind.”

— Gene Tierney

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

— Peter Ustinov

A mans spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities

— Jeremy Aldana

Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Being on death row has taken so much from me as a human being.

— Anthony Ray Hinton

Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.

— Paula Cole

Living among society's outcasts and experiencing the brutality of America's prison system did more to set (or confirm) the direction of my…

— David Dellinger

Historically, there would always be people among the general population who had family members, friends, cousins who'd done time or who'd been…

— Hank Azaria

I had a lot of friends who were also football players. Some of them ended up in prison, some of them had…

— Marko Arnautovic

Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common…

— Edward Gibbon

It seems to be the sense that once you throw guys in prison they're not going to come out. No, they're going…

— John Buffalo Mailer

I came home to four children, and I came home to two tombstones. My mother was in one and my grandmother was…

— Angela Stanton-King

“With the instincts of convicts who discover the gates of their prison open, the individual oranges rolled in every direction to maximize…

— Amor Towles

“The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To revolt within society in order to make it a little better, to bring about certain reforms, is like the revolt of…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

One of the most recent things we did [in Perceval Press] is a reissue of a fantastic documentary about Russian prison tattoo…

— Viggo Mortensen

If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because…

— Joe Bageant

I, Master John Hus, in chains and in prison, now standing on the shore of this present life and expecting on the…

— Jan Hus

My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the…

— Oscar Wilde

The evidence is overwhelming that it should be deemed as such: solitary confinement in the U.S. is arbitrary, abused, and unnecessary in…

— Chelsea Manning

“This shit about being fearless before death ain't got no quality. How could you say you were fearless about leaving the party,…

— John Cheever

“Mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses are the prime reason that the U.S. prison population has ballooned since the 1980s to over…

— Piper Kerman

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

— Johnnie Cochran

..living in this life where people having sympathy. going to jail all the time living with no discipline..

— Christopher Williams

This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are.

— Philip Davies

The main thing I learned in jail was how much I love my kids, that I never want to be away from…

— Ashley Walters

I know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence.

— John McCain

Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.

— Johnny Cash

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

— Ho Chi Minh

My worst memory is living through the 1989 riot in Huntingdon Prison.

— Nick Yarris

A freed mind and a venturous spirit will pick the lock upon the doorway of your own prison

— Anonymous

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

— Anonymous

A prisoner unaware is the kind of prisoner most vulnerable to her captors, the easiest prey there is.

— Beth Moore

Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.

— Joseph Brodsky

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing

— Voltaire

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

— W. C. Fields

First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.

— Angela Davis

He had wanted so hard to Escape, to find the stars. And all he had found was a new prison.

— Catherine Fisher