Prison Quotes · Page 36

The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

— Malcolm X

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

After the 1960 royal coup, I spent time in India - including three years in prison.

— Sushil Koirala

You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.

— Isadora Duncan

No mandatory prison term for employers who hire illegals.

— Mitt Romney

Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

— Aeschylus

“Not every one of us are born or made free of our own prisons to the extent of ourselves.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“I often find myself in a room full of strangers, and very often it’s a tough crowd. But I’m a master networker,…

— Jarod Kintz

“My head is a prison I’ve been locked in from the start, So if I'm treated like a criminal I might as…

— Dan Garfat-Pratt

Perhaps some day, modern people will learn that mystery is not the prison of the mind of people, it is their home.

— Walter Farrell

In brief, we do more research on men in prison, men in the military, and men in general than we do on…

— Warren Farrell

Are you searching for the river of your soul? Then come out of your prison. Leave the stream and join the river…

— Rumi

A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and…

— Mahmoud Darwish

“To live with unforgiveness is to become a captive cultured citizen whose taxation is that of demonically ticketed torment.”

— Tracey Bond

I do get stopped in the street, and people are always, without exception, really polite. I think it's because they think I…

— Robert Rinder

“The percentage of drug arrests that result in prison sentences (rather than dismissal, community service, or probation) has quadrupled, resulting in a…

— Michelle Alexander

Somebody goes to a soup kitchen and serves the hungry, someone goes to a prison and tries to get people to turn…

— Ralph Sarchie

Tell me why the caged bird nutters against its prison bars, and I will tell you why the soul sickens of earthliness.…

— Randolph Sinks Foster

... True, we are often too weak to stop injustices; but the least we can do is to protest against them. True,…

— Elie Wiesel

I see Edward Snowden as someone who has chosen, at best, exile from the country he loves-with a serious risk of his…

— Daniel Ellsberg

Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming…

— Anonymous

Suicide was against the law. Johnny had wondered why. It meant that if you missed, or the gas ran out, or the…

— Terry Pratchett

All this [Soviet labor camp for political prisoners] brings about one marked change in your physical appearance; by the end of your…

— Irina Ratushinskaya

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.

— Edwin Arnold

As a little boy I thought I knew what I was doing, yeah man but today here I am in jail.

— Lucky Dube

If I was killed in prison. That would be a blessing right now.

— Jeffrey Dahmer

People bragging about being in jail is a little immature. More like an fn idoit!

— Kevin McCarty

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.

— Lord Byron

Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is a darker Lex too, because he's been in prison and he wants revenge. He's not playing around.

— Bryan Singer

Saying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will unlock the prison door.

— Arnaud Desjardins

“Obligation is a prison. To get out of it, we must serve our time.”

— Kamil Alvi

A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

— Samuel Johnson

Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.

— Bobby Seale

“What’s a girl to wear to spend eternity in prison?’ – Evalle”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

You shouldn't have a profit motivation to fill prison cells with young Americans.

— Hillary Clinton

I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse.

— Eskinder Nega

I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.

— Nelson Mandela

The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.

— Eugene V. Debs