Prison Quotes · Page 39

A man who goes to jail for his ideas is much freer than his keepers.

— Mikis Theodorakis

Surprise sex is the best thing to wake up to unless . . . You're in a prison.

— Anonymous

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

— Henry David Thoreau

“The biggest prison in the universe is caring about what other people think of you.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

— Jeffrey Archer

You know you've lived in LA to long when what you fear most about prison is a lack of organic produce.

— Dov Davidoff

“I’d rather be shot dead screaming for justice than die alone in a prison of my own making.”

— Tahereh Mafi

The way people are treated in them [prisons] is very similar to gulags.

— Jerry Brown

People in England who do not like gardening are very few, and of the few there are, many do not own to…

— E. M. Delafield

“I'm Galileo in prison. I'm a supercomputer in a junkyard. I'm being wasted, Irene. This town is killing me by inches, turning…

— Eva Morgan

What would happen if we financed somebody in the U.S. to destabilize the government of George W. Bush? They would go to…

— Hugo Chavez

It turns out Dimitri had a friend, who had a friend, and despite the best security in the Moroi world, we managed…

— Richelle Mead

Fear is a self imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move…

— Rick Warren

I myself spent some time in prison, so I know the type of trajectory that a criminal offense can put on someone's…

— Angela Stanton-King

I don't think we can reduce the prison population now, so many of these people are damaged goods once they've spent much…

— Peter Moskos

I'd like to think that if I were in prison for a crime I didn't commit, someone would be trying to get…

— Lisa Lutz

The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness, through…

— Barbara Marciniak

“Being a copper I like to see the law win. I'd like to see the flashy well-dressed mugs like Eddie Mars spoiling…

— Raymond Chandler

The United States does have the highest rate of incarceration in the world dwarfing the rates of even highly repressive regimes like…

— Michelle Alexander

My stepfather used to be a clown in The Shrine Circus. He took me backstage when I was 23. I saw three…

— Gary Yourofsky

Some studies have shown close to 70 percent of men who are in prison have one of two things in common: One,…

— Joe Biden

Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is…

— Anonymous

Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half…

— C. S. Lewis

“Symbols, for me and for many, of freedom, whether it be from the prison of over-dense communities and the close confines of…

— Gavin Maxwell

“We could end up in prison married to the guy with the most cigarettes.”

— Neal Stephenson

If every crime victim had to have perfect judgment, we could empty our prisons.

— Claire McCaskill

“We all have our own magnificent prisons, even the queen, I’d venture.”

— Fiona Davis

The biggest prison you will likely ever live in is your fear of what other people think.

— Suman Rai

I only hope those rumors I hear about what goes on in prison are greatly exaggerated.

— Homer

I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.

— Steve Earle

“Religion is the hereditary prison of the human mind , and your parents and your siblings are your jailers .”

— Gerald Lanteigne

I knew a girl so ugly, they use her in prisons to cure sex offenders.

— Rodney Dangerfield

“The human race is a life sentence...it's a rough confinement, and sometimes we all need to break out of jail.”

— Salman Rushdie

“Laura hated to lie, but she was pretty sure she’d hate prison more.”

— Pamela Clare

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

— Virginia Woolf

A golf course is for golf. A tennis court is for tennis. A prison camp is for escaping.

— Pierre Fresnay

In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.

— Benazir Bhutto

My mind has never been in prison; I think all the time about what I should do on the day that I…

— Varg Vikernes

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

— Anonymous

I don't want to leave prison having been pardoned, but rather with my head held high, with dignity.

— Jordi Cuixart