Prison Quotes · Page 31

Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.

— Will Rogers

“We have more prisoners locked up on drug charges than the continent of Europe has in total prisoners. It’s”

— Andrew Heaton

I've been going to visit people in prison since I was a kid.

— Yo Gotti

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.

— Nelson Mandela

Jail was a result of me not taking time for myself. So I was forced to take some time for myself.

— Christian Slater

My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.

— Maajid Nawaz

I have been to Guantanamo. It's a model prison. Is it ideal? No. But we live in a very un-ideal world.

— Peter T. King

I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or…

— Foxy Brown

“We’re all locked in the self-imposed sentence of our omnipotent, omnipresent digital cells now, with our PINs and biometric passwords as the…

— Stewart Stafford

With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and…

— Steve Buscemi

I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying…

— Ron Reagan

Bridget did the only thing she could do in this situation that wouldn't end with her doing a life stint in prison.…

— J. Lynn

“Jaz immediately thought of a scene from a prison gym. Even the women looked tough and intimidating; lifting weights that she could…

— A.Z. Green

They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.

— Malcolm X

I believe, and I may be wrong, the system sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Prison is supposed to rehabilitate, but they don't…

— Amaury Nolasco

“...our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and…

— Piper Kerman

I could never work in a recording studio where you have this lovely view and a beach and the waves are crashing.…

— Madonna Ciccone

OK, so $1 trillion is what it costs to run the federal government for one year. So this money's going to run…

— Susan Davis

“A lengthy term of community service working with addicts on the outside would probably have driven the same truth home and been…

— Piper Kerman

Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration - which have been…

— Peter Kropotkin

But all at once I realized that it was not my success God had used to enable me to help those in…

— Charles Colson

There are so many issues that impact women. When we talk about prison reform, for example, women were [once] sterilized in women's…

— Patricia Arquette

The federal government overrules state laws where state laws permit medicinal marijuana for people dying of cancer. The federal government goes in…

— Ron Paul

I don't want to sound too cryptic, but if it wasn't for MMA, I'd probably be in prison.

— Sean Strickland

If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to prison because I will kill him.

— Mario

A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.

— Eugene V. Debs

Become placeless, for to change this place of water and clay is but to move from one prison to another.

— Saib Tabrizi

Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.

— Pierre Charron

“The illusion of freedom is just another sort of prison-”

— Lisa Mantchev

Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.

— Joyce Cary

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

— Elbert Hubbard

The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

— Walter Raleigh

Why, when God's world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places?

— Rumi

“How can a prisoner plot his escape if he doesn’t believe a world exists outside the prison walls?”

— Skye Jethani

Thousands of people go to jail, go to prison, every year without even meeting with an attorney.

— Michelle Alexander

My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing.

— Sylvia Plath

For me, prison is a necessary step towards achieving the right to self-determination.

— Jordi Cuixart

“Only prisoners were ever granted easy passage into a prison.”

— Scott Lynch

If it doesn't make sense, you should find for the defense.

— Johnnie Cochran