Prison Quotes · Page 24

A golf course is for golf. A tennis court is for tennis. A prison camp is for escaping.

— Pierre Fresnay

“The human race is a life sentence...it's a rough confinement, and sometimes we all need to break out of jail.”

— Salman Rushdie

“Laura hated to lie, but she was pretty sure she’d hate prison more.”

— Pamela Clare

I knew a girl so ugly, they use her in prisons to cure sex offenders.

— Rodney Dangerfield

My mind has never been in prison; I think all the time about what I should do on the day that I…

— Varg Vikernes

In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.

— Benazir Bhutto

The biggest prison you will likely ever live in is your fear of what other people think.

— Suman Rai

I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.

— Steve Earle

'Paris, Texas' is the first film that I've totally cared about, the first movie I totally wanted to do - and that…

— Harry Dean Stanton

What makes Bush different from Hitler? He commits crimes in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons. With all these crimes, they still behave…

— Ali Khamenei

Prisons are called 'correctional facilities' because the goal is to correct the behavior that sent people there.

— Charlie Kirk

Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try…

— Albert Einstein

Look at the opening sequence of 'The Blues Brothers,' which starts at the prison. The way it was filmed, it does not…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs.

— Ronnie Van Zant

There's not a man in there who doesn't regret it. You're in there. You're on your own. Everyone is at their lowest…

— Joey Barton

The man who has received this great deliverance is no longer a convict, painfully observing all prison rules with the hope of…

— Anonymous

“When first I was put into prison some people advised me to try and forget who I was. It was ruinous advice.…

— Oscar Wilde

According to Life & Style Weekly, 50 Cent may be working on Lindsay Lohan's next album. Finally, a match made in rap…

— Chelsea Handler

The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems…

— Wendell Berry

African-American men are more likely to be killed in police incidents, stopped and searched, and sentenced to longer prison terms than white…

— Hillary Clinton

The goal is not to just have rapists expelled from schools. I don't want rapists transferring schools. I don't want them out…

— Claire McCaskill

Christianity...made, for nearly 1,500 years, persecution, religious wars, massacres, theological feuds and bloodshed, heresy huntings and heretic burnings, prisons, dungeons, anathemas, curses,…

— M. M. Mangasarian

I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's…

— Nelson Mandela

As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without trial…

— Fred Korematsu

“Religion is the hereditary prison of the human mind , and your parents and your siblings are your jailers .”

— Gerald Lanteigne

I only hope those rumors I hear about what goes on in prison are greatly exaggerated.

— Homer

In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.

— Dennis Rodman

“This is not my prison. I carry it with me. We devise cages of our own choosing.”

— Bernie Mcgill

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

— Seneca the Younger

“I’d kill for any one of my friends. Thankfully for the overpopulated prison system, I don’t have any friends.”

— Jarod Kintz

I don't want to leave prison having been pardoned, but rather with my head held high, with dignity.

— Jordi Cuixart

One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand.

— Rumi

My kid wants to be a prison warden when he grows up so he can put thumb tacks on the electric chairs.

— Rodney Dangerfield

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

— Anonymous

I'm feeling pretty good. A lot of people don't know this, but I am not currently in prison, which feels great.

— Misha Collins

Having fears is like being in prison, you have no way out, only to face them..

— Trilla

“Working at a job you don't like is the same as going to prison every day," my father used to say.”

— Kathleen Flinn

After six prison commitments, at the end of those, I was more broken than when I went into the system.

— Susan Burton

Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.

— Sheldon B. Kopp

“I want to go to Sing Sing prison. I’ll bet they’ve got a good chorus.”

— Jarod Kintz