Prison Quotes · Page 41

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

— Robert A. Heinlein

I've got a lot to say about my life, about what I went through in prison and about what my family went…

— Boosie

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

— Malcolm X

What they say about being in prison is true. That moment when the door closes, time stands still.

— Joey Barton

“Not all prisons are made of iron bars, some are made of feather beds.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Comfort...was the key ingredient to making the prisoner crave the prison.”

— Ashim Shanker

Stone's Rules exist because sometimes the truth is too painful, and the lies will land you in prison.

— Roger Stone

Jail is no place for a young fellow. There's no advancement

— Groucho Marx

Danbury wasn't a prison, it was a crime school. I went in with a Bachelor of marijuana, came out with a Doctorate…

— Anonymous

Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of…

— Edward Abbey

Bill Clinton presided over the largest increase in federal and state prison inmates of any president in American history.

— Michelle Alexander

How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of…

— Herman Melville

The conditions in the prisons operated by the Mississippi Department of Corrections are absolutely inhumane and unconstitutional.

— Yo Gotti

“The workers who built the settlements and produced the export crops may now enjoy their freedom in the world’s largest prison.58”

— Noam Chomsky

To put it in plain language, Russia is that country where the name of a writer appears not on the cover of…

— Joseph Brodsky

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is…

— William Shakespeare

That wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I thought was right, that…

— Michael Vick

“But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the body that must survive a jail term: the spirit and…

— Gregory David Roberts

When God calls a man, He does not repent of it. God does not, as many friends do, love one day, and…

— Thomas Watson

It has come to the time where the most dangerous place to be in America is not the inner city, where gangs…

— Charles R. Swindoll

I certainly want to be involved in politics and help shape the transition. I am in contact with regime critics who had…

— Garry Kasparov

I suppose that it was inevitable that my word-base broadened. I could now for the first time pick up a book and…

— Alex Haley

Because your character is always full of ambition, the news of my being locked up must have been much harder on you…

— Diet Eman

It has to be about more than punishment. We need to rehabilitate people. We lock up far too many people in America…

— Susan Burton

Jail was probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me.

— Tommy Chong

We must do better by offenders who are sent to prison to make them less likely to return.

— David Lidington

There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.

— Pasquier Quesnel

We buried ourselves under the jail. Without shovels, and dirt under our nails.

— Jean Grae

Scientists are the enemies of tradition , and tradition own all the prisons. - Victor Vigny

— Eoin Colfer

“Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion”

— william blake

'The prison' begins well before its doors. It begins as soon as you leave your house - and even before.

— Michel Foucault

“Sometimes I feel like a normal person. Sometimes I forget I’m on parole, that I’m not really free.”

— Jennifer Lane

I didn't have any shrimp the whole time I was in prison.

— Da Brat

TV's a big deal in prison. A big deal. People watch it nonstop.

— Abby Lee Miller

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

— Seneca the Younger

For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn.

— Henry Miller

we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.

— Jeffrey Archer

The world like our heads was meant to be escaped from, they are prisons world and head alike.

— Michael Chabon

I started out in 1985, and I was Inmate #1 in every prison movie made from '85 to '93.

— Kim Coates

Prison reform, peace, and a presidential pardon - just a portion of Kushner's portfolio.

— Kayleigh McEnany