After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison. — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
“The worst is when people - knowingly or not - carry prison inside themselves. - 9-10 P.M. Poems ” — Nâzım Hikmet Copy Share Image
A society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons. — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I've got a lot to say about my life, about what I went through in prison and about what my family went… — Boosie Copy Share Image
Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“He’s in cotton-wool, pampered and cosseted, surrounded with hot-house flowers and picture papers. He’s a prisoner in a gilded cage. I wonder… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew, In prison pine with bondage and restraint; And with remembrance of the greater grief… — Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Copy Share Image
Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I've been accused for a shootin. Which I know never do. Who dem in prison that willing dey. So I've got to… — Peter Tosh Copy Share Image
I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy. You can only punish. I warn you that… — Jerome Lawrence Copy Share Image
Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so. — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Most people, when they want to see their mothers, they can pick up the phone and dial it. I've got to go… — Keyshia Cole Copy Share Image
“the black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
We must build a movement for education, not incarceration. A movement for jobs, not jails. A movement that will end all forms… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We are not taught to fear our politicians, who can debase our currency, throw us in prison and send us to war… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
One of the things that made me long to be back in prison was that I had so little opportunity for reading,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I've written about illegal immigrants in the United States; I spent a year following migrant farm workers as they were harvesting. I've… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
“When people become prisoners of daily habits and happen to be hostages of choices, which they made in the past, but which… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
All I did was pray to God, every day. In prison camp, the main prayer was, 'Get me home alive, God, and… — Louis Zamperini Copy Share Image
If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“I just might kill someone in my next job, and I'll be honest here, I couldn't do the time. Really. No way.… — Laurie Notaro Copy Share Image
It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted… — Eddie Slovik Copy Share Image
“Love is the only thing that changes abstinence from a prison into pleasure.” — Jihad Eltabey Copy Share Image
Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Typically, you get a year in prison for making a threat to assassinate the president. — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
“...bars can't build better men and misery can only break what goodness remains.” — Stuart Turton Copy Share Image
The world is a philosophical prison and Man is the philosophical prisoner. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I feel like a normal person. Sometimes I forget I’m on parole, that I’m not really free.” — Jennifer Lane Copy Share Image
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Comfort...was the key ingredient to making the prisoner crave the prison.” — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Stone's Rules exist because sometimes the truth is too painful, and the lies will land you in prison. — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
What they say about being in prison is true. That moment when the door closes, time stands still. — Joey Barton Copy Share Image
