Not to sound cynical, but all you ever learn in prison is how to be a better criminal. — Ras Kass Copy Share Image
Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life. — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Remember that the Unification Church rose, not in freedom, but from a prison, the pit of suffering. — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem. — Michael Vick Copy Share Image
Instead of schools being a pipeline to opportunity, schools are feeding our prisons. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
My parents divorced when I was 10, but when my father was there, he was trying to create almost like a little… — Sarah Shahi Copy Share Image
“See this abdicated beast, once king Of them all, nibble his claws: Not anger enough left—no, nor despair— To break his teeth… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Shyne's my man. I've been talking to him and I was talking to him all through his prison sentence. He's always remained… — Scott Storch Copy Share Image
Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Many offenders have had immensely difficult upbringings and do not have the support of loving families and friends. — David Gauke Copy Share Image
The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“It's time to get healed. It's time to confess. Falling for the bait doesn't make you the worst person in the world.… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money:… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“Dante doesn't go easy. It’s tough.” “And I can’t do it because, what? Because I’m a female? I’ll have you know that… — Suzanne Wright Copy Share Image
I have kept no secret about my time growing up in Miami, U.S.A., and landing in trouble and going to prison for… — Montel Vontavious Porter Copy Share Image
The years of imprisonment hardened me ... Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the… — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Copy Share Image
“Their quarry had been cornered in his defenses and their bloodlust was such that they were likely to pay top Julep to… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
When liberal celebs stammer out a litany of shopworn bleats about the administration's attempt to turn America into a theocratic prison state,… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
Good evening. A President who lied us into a war and, in so doing, needlessly killed 3,584 of our family and friends… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Aren't we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?” — Ruthy Alon Copy Share Image
“Kindness is in a prison till it finds Release in words or deeds. - Kindness ” — William Kean Seymour Copy Share Image
I lost everything when they put us in prison. I was an enemy alien, a man without a country. — Fred Korematsu Copy Share Image
I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“I am here through an error—not in this prison, specifically—but in this whole terrible, striped world;” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
It costs the same to send a person to prison or to Harvard. The difference is the curriculum. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
“Your eyes were the bait luring me into your world. Your kiss was the trap door keeping me prisoner there.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I've been in jail before. None of that stuff changed until I was ready to change. That was it. I don't hide… — Anthony Smith Copy Share Image
The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large. — Ryan Ross Copy Share Image
We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports. — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
Nobody is free… Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons. — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison. — Craig L. Thomas Copy Share Image
