Prison Quotes · Page 27

When we put someone in our jail cell of hatred, we are stuck guarding the door.

— Max Lucado

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison.

— Daniel Tosh

I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.

— Daniel Alarcon

I hated women before I went to prison. I always felt like women were trying to tear each other down.

— Remy Ma

I had to face imprisonment and house arrests, but it made me tougher.

— Asma Jahangir

I saw worse stuff inside prison than I ever saw in the streets.

— Bernard Hopkins

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

— Antonia Fraser

The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.

— John F. Kennedy

“And freedom? Oh, freedom. Well that's just some people talking. Your prison is walking through this world all alone.”

— Jacqueline Woodson

One of the things about incarceration is that you're deprived. You lose all of your identity, and then its given back one…

— Susan Burton

You have people there from all walks of life: people who made mistakes and have to deal with the consequences, mothers and…

— Prodigy

Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact…

— Henry Giroux

Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor…

— Tom Rachman

I was a target. There was a guy who took a paint roller extension pole and blasted me in the knee a…

— Tim Donaghy

You don't need a lot of credentials to be prison guard in a federal prison. And, you know, you give them a…

— Abby Lee Miller

America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

— Bruce Jackson

One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and…

— Lane Garrison

The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while…

— Mark Haskell Smith

When Chris­tians in free countries win a soul for Christ, the new believer may become a member of a quietly living church.…

— Richard Wurmbrand

But then you say, Well, who makes the decision? Does the government make the decision? The reason this is such a national…

— John H Richardson

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

At this point I hadn't yet gotten deep into the historic condition that negroes in this country are confronted with, but at…

— Malcolm X

“Brightlord Adolin insisted. So long as you were in here, he wouldn't leave. We tried to stop him, but the man’s a…

— Brandon Sanderson

Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone…

— Patrick Macnee

We are all prisoners of the ideas of the times we live in.

— Svetlana Alexievich

“The current social organization is a sophisticated lie and invisible prison without bars.”

— Bryant McGill

A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

— Clarence Darrow

If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.

— Chaka Khan

That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

— Anonymous

Fear is the strongest prison and courage is the only way out!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Any time you see a white guy in jail, you know he did something bad.

— Will Smith

“It’s like a prison. Okay, it is a prison. There’s the problem right there.”

— Gennifer Choldenko

I don't need your prison I don't need your pain. I don't need your decision So what should I do?

— Dope

“We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.”

— Piper Kerman

All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

— John Donne

Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.

— Henri Matisse

“[Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.”

— Stephen King

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.

— Corrie Ten Boom

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

— Jack Henry Abbott

As much as I didn't want to go to jail I had to accept it. It was my own doing.

— Joey Barton