Prison Quotes · Page 21

Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

— Angela Davis

“Issues are like tissues. You pull one out and another appears!”

— Gary Goldstein

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

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

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

— Anonymous

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

— Vladimir Lenin

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

— Edmund Burke

I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving…

— Michael Eric Dyson

A lot of people that get out of prison have anti-social personality disorder, which makes them promiscuous and erratic, and they can't…

— Antony Starr

A friend of mine is chief of staff at a big prison in Georgia. Along with giving me a tour of the…

— Adrienne C. Moore

She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than…

— Pat Conroy

I spent a night in jail but honestly who could have known it's illegal to pee from a hotel balcony into the…

— Nikhil Saluja

“Have you fallen into the prison of dreams? Then you are very lucky; stay inside for a while, in normal prisons your…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“In seeking to severely penalize criminals society by putting the criminals away behind safe walls actually provide them with the means of…

— Jack Kerouac

I understood law enforcement in such a way that I was able to get a law enforcement officer, a veteran, to actually…

— Isaac Wright Jr

Crime is a social problem, and education is the only real deterrent. Look at all of us in prison; we were all…

— Wilbert Rideau

Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do.…

— Kathy Acker

“Seasons didn't come behind the nicotine-stained walls of Mountain City's prison, so Harm always imagined it spring--the locust trees clustered with shaggy…

— Sharyn McCrumb

“Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you…

— Marisha Pessl

The [Stanford Prison Experiment] was readily approved by the Human Subjects Research committee because it seemed like college kids playing cops and…

— Philip Zimbardo

I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus…

— Charles Colson

There's no straight line between closing the mental institutions and filling the prisons but there is some sort of relationship. And it's…

— Peter Moskos

But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind,…

— Anonymous

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

— George Jackson

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

— Dana Walden

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

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

— Jessica Mitford

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

— Kayleigh McEnany

How much has spending most of the offseason in prison affected Jamal Lewis' poor start?.

— Cris Collinsworth

“By braiding floss into a rope in 1994, a prison inmate scaled the wall and escaped”

— Adam Anderson

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

— Jeffrey Archer

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Kim Coates

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

— Michael Chabon

I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.

— Alan Moore

America, the self-described greatest nation on Earth, has the highest incarceration rate on the planet.

— W. Kamau Bell