Prison Quotes · Page 10

None of my peers avoided prison. None of 'em.

— Nipsey Hussle

I could go to juvie instead of real prison.

— Isaac

Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

— James Ussher

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

— Anonymous

We are all living in cages with the door wide open.

— George Lucas

Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]

— Irving Stone

“I'm beginning to wish I was back in prison.”

— Anonymous

No jailhouse but your girl in my cell

— Yung Eazy

The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

— Walter Raleigh

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

— Elbert Hubbard

Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.

— Joyce Cary

“The illusion of freedom is just another sort of prison-”

— Lisa Mantchev

Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.

— Pierre Charron

My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing.

— Sylvia Plath

Thousands of people go to jail, go to prison, every year without even meeting with an attorney.

— Michelle Alexander

Why, when God's world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places?

— Rumi

Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to…

— Eskinder Nega

Some writing programs are very much like, you come in, and you have a niche that becomes yours, and, you know, you're…

— Jennifer Konner

I don't have to act for work anymore; I can act for passion. That's freeing, but it's also a prison of its…

— Ashton Kutcher

In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world…

— Anonymous

The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap,…

— Marian Wright Edelman

I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start…

— James Brown

The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and…

— Frederick Lenz

Wanderlust is not unheard of in our kind; it comes upon us now and then. When you can live forever, staying in…

— Cassandra Clare

There's a lot of forces opposed to legalization marijuana, so I don't want to put the cart before the horse. It's looking…

— John Buffalo Mailer

Well I've always said that fame and fortune - the two things that one seems to go after when they go into…

— Dave Madden

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the…

— Lord Byron

Of course nothing is ever done about a [presidential] commission report, except, they say, once a man at the state prison for…

— Will Rogers

“You know, when you’re in jail with a whole bunch of people who think they did bad and think they got wrong…

— Marlin Marynick

Mr. McCain fought in Vietnam. I think that he has enough blood of peaceful citizens on his hands. It must be impossible…

— Vladimir Putin

At the age of 46, in my sixth prison term, it was the second prison I was in - California Rehabilitation Center.…

— Susan Burton

The thing is, Guantánamo is also a naval base, and they're under the delusion - especially the people on the naval side…

— Molly Crabapple

The hardest prison to escape is in your mind.

— Anonymous

The bars on our cage are of our own making.

— Jessie Burton

Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Home is the prison you always return to.”

— John Goode

Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.

— Jack Kerouac

When I got out jail I didn't want to be shy no more.

— Rich Homie Quan

Prison gives you time to reflect.

— Troy Deeney

The last place I would ever want to go is prison.

— Martha Stewart