Prison Quotes · Page 23

“Fear. “The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.” —David Icke”

— Erik Myers

Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.

— Ian Fleming

“At what point did you begin to adapt well in prison?” “Actually, it was after I read Shakespeare’s Hamlet.”

— Timothy M. Burke

Routine is not a prison, but the way to freedom from time.

— May Sarton

Chelsea Manning got thirty-five years in prison, while I'm still free.

— Edward Snowden

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

— Edwin Arnold

Facebook is kind of like prison. You spend all day staring at walls and getting poked by people you dont know.

— Anonymous

Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

— Marc Lamont Hill

A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human…

— Charles Handy

Incarceration didnt change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.

— Roger Avary

Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.

— Tupac Shakur

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

— Anonymous

I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to…

— Foxy Brown

Incarceration rates, especially black incarceration rates, have soared regardless of whether crime is going up or down in any given community or…

— Michelle Alexander

Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the…

— Antonio Negri

Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.

— Lysa TerKeurst

“Realizing the seriously ruthless, venomous habits and agendas of evil always instills a more fierce passion and longing for a closer God.…

— Criss Jami

“Bengt didn’t budge. “Talk to me, damn it.” “Let go!” “And where are you planning to go, Alex?” “Away!” “You can’t get…

— G.B. Gordon

The idea that the United States can't guard its own border is silly. It's a sign that were not serious about this...people…

— Newt Gingrich

“When the prison gates slam behind an inmate, he does not lose his human quality; his mind does not become closed to…

— Thurgood Marshall

Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence — the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities,…

— Jon Krakauer

We know from Talmadge Hayer, one of the men who carried out the assassination, who was shot by Ruben X as he…

— Manning Marable

It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception…

— Albert Einstein

I've never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox's biggest moneymakers, and some of…

— Wentworth Miller

It was a land of shadows and ice. Of gray. And grayer. And black. -The Unseelie prison of Aedan

— Karen Marie Moning

May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.

— Sammy Davis, Jr

“I was kind of excited to go to jail for the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.”

— Quentin Tarantino

'Prison Break' really changed me to somebody that can put butts in seats.

— Robert Knepper

I'm very appreciative and humbled by the success of 'Prison Break.'

— Dominic Purcell

Like you, I have been disgraced about what I've seen on TV that took place in prison.

— George W. Bush

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

— Barry McCaffrey

“Das Paradigma ist ein furchtbares Gefängnis. (The paradigm is a terrible prison.)”

— Anonymous

“What you took as yourself begins to look like a little prison-house far away in the valley beneath you.”

— G.I. Gurdjieff

Mine's [fans] a lot of like weird guys in prison. So I don't need to answer them.

— Lena Dunham

There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.

— William Shakespeare

I am so mean I've handcuffed lightnin' and thrown thunder in jail.

— Muhammad Ali

You might be a redneck if you consider your license plate personalized because your dad made it in prison.

— Jeff Foxworthy

“In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise”

— W.H. Auden

I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series.

— James Belushi

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

— Virginia Woolf