Prison Quotes · Page 27

This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands.

— William Butler Yeats

Like most people who go to prison for an unfair thing, we become more persuaded in our own beliefs.

— Peter Sunde

A man who goes to jail for his ideas is much freer than his keepers.

— Mikis Theodorakis

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I am pretty heavy into causes. I'm an active Democrat, I boycott grapes, and I work for prison reform.

— Valerie Harper

We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Prison is not a place for humans. Period. It's just an animal house.

— Lil Boosie

“that dismal prison house within whose dungeons so many young faces put on the wrinkles of age,”

— Mark Twain

The most valuable blacks are those in prison, those who have the warrior spirit, who had a sense of being African. They…

— August Wilson

“Any place you don’t want to stay becomes your prison! That’s why there are many prisoners all around the world who look…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder.

— Ilana Mercer

I trust work, directors - I don't live in fear. All good experiences have come from trusting the universe. There is no…

— Olivia Wilde

I know [Arthur Koestler] fought in the Spanish Civil War. He was in prison, I think, in Spain and in Russia. He…

— Nat Hentoff

A single thought can revolutionize your life as it did mine. A single thought can make you rich or it can land…

— Earl Nightingale

Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side…

— Margaret Deland

I had an inkling that I was going to prison before I actually did, because I'd witnessed my father and my elders…

— Ashley Walters

I know the American Library Association has models for working with the poor. They do have that, and I think that we…

— Sandra Cisneros

In at least one country where homosexual activists have won major concessions, we have even seen a church pastor threatened with prison…

— Dallin H. Oaks

People talk about Jim Crow as if it's dead. Jim Crow isn't gone. It's adjusted. Look at the disproportionate sentences meted out…

— Aldis Hodge

“I was a prisoner, but the prison library was excellent. On one table in the corner, I found an e-reader with a…

— Alex Flinn

“Once we were inside the walls of Rahway Prison the mood changed. We were patted down for weapons and given a tour.…

— Damien Black

“Prison administration is concerned with this phase of procedure because of the generally accepted notion--in and out of prisons--that money can get…

— Lewis E. Lawes

Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His…

— Coretta Scott King

Smuggling poems out of prison in the soles of mt shoes i'm way past finding salvation in the arms of a woman,…

— Raegan Butcher

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

— Ovid

The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release.

— Joyce Meyer

People don't even know that we have political prisoners.

— Sekou Odinga

“I’d rather be shot dead screaming for justice than die alone in a prison of my own making.”

— Tahereh Mafi

The way people are treated in them [prisons] is very similar to gulags.

— Jerry Brown

“We could end up in prison married to the guy with the most cigarettes.”

— Neal Stephenson

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

— Jeffrey Archer

You know you've lived in LA to long when what you fear most about prison is a lack of organic produce.

— Dov Davidoff

“We all have our own magnificent prisons, even the queen, I’d venture.”

— Fiona Davis

If every crime victim had to have perfect judgment, we could empty our prisons.

— Claire McCaskill

“The biggest prison in the universe is caring about what other people think of you.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

— Henry David Thoreau

Surprise sex is the best thing to wake up to unless . . . You're in a prison.

— Anonymous

I relate to any prison movie, as long as it has some authenticity.

— Danny Trejo

Jail is just the government's way of sending you to your room.

— Syzzer

Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?

— Chang-Rae Lee