Prison Quotes

Life is like a prison

— David Deejay

I went to jail for one day.

— GloRilla

Not all prisons have bars

— Amanda Hocking

“Prison is not a joke.”

— Emy Storey

Man is condemned to be free

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Fear Is Prison

— Brittany_Snyder

I got my GED in prison.

— Boosie

Vices are not crimes.

— Lysander Spooner

You are in a prison with no bars. I worry about you.

— J.R. Ward

I never imagined that I'd be out of prison.

— Danny Trejo

The worst prison would be a closed mind

— Cv Pillay

Why do I think Im in jail? Why am I here?

— Big Meech

By the way, a gendarme assured me this is not a prison.

— e. e. cummings

I can confirm that I have been released from prison.

— Varg Vikernes

The palace we built has become a prison.

— 2D

Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison.

— Antonio Porchia

“The bars of jail shall make you frail. Now that's poetry for you.”

— E.J. Norris

Before you can break out of prison, you must realize you are locked up.

— Anonymous

One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.

— Plato

Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

— Michel Foucault

“When you are born into bondage you can't see the prison.”

— Bryant McGill

It's not fun being locked in a six foot by eight foot cell.

— Wes Moore

I'm the rainbow in your jail cell, all the memories of everything you've ever smelled.

— Red Hot Chili Peppers

I have done my fair share of visiting Suge in jail over the years.

— Michel'le

“Kaladin frowned. “Wait. Are you wearing cologne? In prison?” “Well, there was no need to be barbaric, just because I was incarcerated.”

— Brandon Sanderson

I was just coming out of prison, I was married, and I had a kid, and I didn't know what to do,…

— Joey Diaz

From kindergarten, I knew that politics is something that you talk about only at home, because if you weren't quiet, your parents…

— Kersti Kaljulaid

“The situation was fast approaching that of 1863, when Chicago doctors labeled the prison an extermination camp.”

— George Levy

I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead…

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result,…

— Robert Smithson

Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray…

— Graham Greene

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not…

— Eugene Ionesco

True Socialism, in which everyone is truly equal, does not just resemble a prison - it is a prison. It can not…

— Viktor Suvorov

The issues which mattered to me as an activist, mainly things like prison reform and AIDS, have less of a chance of…

— Rachel Maddow

I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was…

— Lysander Spooner

O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how…

— Walt Whitman

After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced…

— Barbara Deming

I have committed myself to joy. I have come to realize that those who make space for joy, those who prefer nothing…

— Richard Rohr

This is the woman who stopped the Stanford Prison Study. When I said it got out of control, I was the prison…

— Philip Zimbardo

There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is…

— Hannah Arendt