Prison Quotes · Page 16

It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.

— Molly Ivins

“Compared to Hell, this jail cell is like a five-star hotel.”

— M.F. Hopkins

Even if I was in prison, I could be free in my head. I can adapt easily.

— Azzedine Alaia

We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

See, you're out your mind tryin' to face tha God. Your rhyme is like an empty prison...a waste of bars.

— Lord Finesse

The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Turn the cell into a classroom and the prison into a university”

— Khalil Osiris

“Freedom’s an illusion. We all live in prisons of our own making.”

— Skye Warren

We are stuck in a cycle of people serving time for committed crimes, leaving prison, committing new crimes, and returning to serve…

— Josh Shapiro

The man who accused Richard Simmons of slapping him in an airport has dropped the assault charge. Dropped it! Upon hearing the…

— Dennis Miller

When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when…

— Anonymous

What does this system seem designed to do? As I see it, it seems designed to send people right back to prison,…

— Michelle Alexander

Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This…

— Winston Churchill

When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I…

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

“(At PDS, we often lamented that there were never waiting lists for prison—just for alternatives to prison.) But”

— James Forman Jr

We don't want to hurt anybody, kill anybody, build any prisons, or build police. We want to make it unnecessary for people…

— Jacque Fresco

Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often…

— Rick Atkinson

It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly…

— Anthony Bourdain

I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for…

— Piper Kerman

When one in three Black men are in prison, those larger systemic injustices become a part of what it means to love…

— Shane Claiborne

You still owe me a million dollars." I'd presented him with a bill for proving his innocence and getting him freed from…

— Darynda Jones

If Americans actually have the conversation about our disastrous prison policies, we'll understand the trends all move in very dangerous directions: we…

— Dahlia Lithwick

Once somebody is known, it seems as though anybody anywhere can say anything about them. Whereas if I simply stopped someone in…

— Anonymous

When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.

— Nelson Mandela

For me, it's all about being in a tiny room with little windows. It's almost like you have to be in a…

— Madonna Ciccone

[Some men are shortsighted, so] going to prison or going to hell just doesn't matter to these men.

— Rodney Stark

When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?

— Jim Bakker

I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.

— Daniel Defoe

“The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.”

— Sir Walter Raleigh

Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.

— Tyler Perry

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

— Saadi

I've spent a lot of time in prisons, first doing legal work and later, teaching.

— Peter Orner

An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.

— Joe Biden

When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails.

— David Gerrold

“She knew that the freedom was in herself, just as the prison had been.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Prison for me is not taking away my freedom, but taking away my coffee.”

— Sotero M Lopez II

In my mind, there was never a thought that I wasn't going to find a way to get myself out of prison.

— Isaac Wright Jr

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

— Angela Davis