Prison Quotes · Page 45

“that jail existed for the opposite reason from why your home existed”

— Richard Ford

The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.

— Zoroaster

Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.

— Cheri Huber

“The mind can be a prison or a prism...I choose the latter.”

— Paige Bleu

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

— Aristotle

“A prison cell, however tastefully decorated, is still a cage.”

— Darren Main

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

— Anonymous

“didn’t worry that the man was going to get him, because the man had got him. He did not awake in prison…

— Neil Gaiman

I used to teach writing in a federal prison, and for my students' benefit, I would liken the narrative use of this…

— Norman Lock

The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws,…

— George W. Bush

We can't let somebody rise to the top who will pardon these war criminals. Because they need to go to prison for…

— Cindy Sheehan

“They have elevated him on a pedestal, but...a pedestal is nothing more than an elegant cage. No walls, no locks, but unless…

— Neal Shusterman

I couldn't afford to get sick in prison. My sickle cell is no joke, so I couldn't eat poorly or not exercise.…

— Prodigy

“They looked like linebackers on a prison football team, whose idea of commincation was to smash into something at full speed, preferably…

— John Verdon

I spent five and a half years in prison. The worst part was coming home and finding out Green Acres had been…

— John McCain

The Stars. Jared slept beneath them, uneasy in the rustling leaves. From the battlements Finn gazed up at them, seeing the impossible…

— Catherine Fisher

“and not a year ago?’ ‘I should have, but I figured the courts down here would finally realize they had the wrong…

— John Grisham

The best thing—in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd…

— Neil Gaiman

“It’s inevitable. But we pretend it isn’t until that point where we can’t deny it anymore. Then we begin to repent.” “Repent…

— Michael Deeze

Virtually everything that the government does costs more than when the same thing is done in private industry - whether it is…

— Thomas Sowell

... as recently as the mid-1970s, the most well-respected criminologists were predicting that the prison system would soon fade away. Prison did…

— Michelle Alexander

To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living…

— Margaret Atwood

I was really lucky in that my mom and dad never got caught in the act, so to speak. So my mom…

— Trevor Noah

“Theism is a self imposed prison where the jailer and prisoner are one.”

— Lance Seivert

I've been to Villawood Detention Centre in Sydney and it's all barbed wire, it's like a big jail.

— Anh Do

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

— George Bernard Shaw

In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

After I screwed up and went to jail, the first day I got out, I got a job at the UFC Gym…

— Mike Perry

'Prison Break' on Netflix has generated a whole new generation of viewers.

— Dana Walden

Mandela? He lasted 27 years in prison but he never could've done 30.

— Serge Ibaka

Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.

— Jessica Mitford

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

— Philip Emeagwali

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

— Mitchell Burgess

It is in prison ... that one becomes a real revolutionary.

— Vladimir Lenin

I bet in prison everyones fb relationship status is set to 'its complicated.'

— Anonymous

I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me.

— George Jackson

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

— Edmund Burke

Being incarcerated does not mean being devoid of the capacity to learn, grow, and think, and it's critical that prisons provide spaces…

— Clint Smith