Prison Quotes · Page 22

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Freedom, well, that's just some people talking. Your prison is walking through this world all alone.

— The Eagles

I'd like to have a boyfriend in prison so I'd always know where he is.

— Carrie Snow

I don't know what goes on in prison. I've never been in trouble with the police in my life.

— Harry Redknapp

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

— John Locke

Nelson Mandela is a leader Barack Obama should try to emulate... He could start by spending 27 years in prison.

— Don Imus

As horrible as jail was, there were some first-rate guys in there.

— Scott Weiland

The only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year.

— Patricia McConnell

The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons.

— Jimmy Carter

“There are an estimated 120,000 inmates in federal prisons who are grappling with being trapped behind bars, though they are not guilty…

— Colin Warner

“So sleep now, without fear for your life, and if you should ever manage to get out of prison, keep in mind…

— Bernard Malamud

. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be…

— Tom McCall

That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach…

— John Donne

Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me…

— Kaspar Hauser

People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there…

— Antony Starr

Dayodhuam: I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in…

— T. S. Eliot

The earth is not a lair, neither is it a prison. The earth is a Paradise, the only one we'll ever know.…

— Henry Miller

Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

That prison," I said with heartfelt sincerity, "Was absolutely the most awful thing that has happened to me in my entire life."…

— Megan Whalen Turner

A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and…

— Victoria Woodhull

On one hand, prostitutes don't struggle because it's simply their life. In Mexico and elsewhere, once they get out of these places…

— Michael Glawogger

People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity,…

— Nelson Mandela

“The prisoners stand on the other side, three of whom require their own cages. He hands out the Eucharist through a sort…

— Kerry Weber

Our people outside of prison used my name to mobilize the community locally and internationally. But for me to be treated separately…

— Nelson Mandela

Your Village may be different from other people's Villages, but we are all prisoners.

— Patrick McGoohan

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I prefer a prison full of criminals than a graveyard full of innocent people.

— Jair Bolsonaro

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

— Steve Buscemi

Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that.

— Patricia McConnell

I went to AA meetings when I was in prison. And I hope I've gone some way to turning my life around.

— Joey Barton

I'll hit anyone who's seriously threatening my life... that's what happened, and that's what sent me to prison.

— Jim Goad

He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison.

— Daniel Drew

“You spend a lot of time thinking about how awful the prison is rather than envisioning your future.”

— Piper Kerman

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

— Henry Louis Gates

The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.

— Wavy Gravy

We made it,' he shouted. 'Not bad for a prison break, eh?' 'Good thinking Jake.

— Stephenie Meyer

I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.

— Anais Nin

Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build

— Talib Kweli

“Even a ship can become a prison if all you see around you are bars.”

— Sabrina Jeffries

Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.

— Bill Watterson