Prison Quotes · Page 28

I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.

— Iggy Pop

It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

— Stephen Breyer

Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.

— Juvenal

We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.

— Iyanla Vanzant

“So maybe I'll spend some years in prison, but you'll have a big head start on me in hell!”

— Chuck Palahniuk

In prison we are their jailers On trial their judges Persecuted their punishers Dead their conquerors

— Eoin MacNeill

Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.

— Seneca the Younger

What mostly prevents black people from voting is that drug laws send them to prison, and then they can't vote.

— Bill Maher

I witnessed other inmates' time run out, and I'd be lying if I said you don't ask yourself, 'Wow, is that going…

— Anthony Ray Hinton

Prisons! Prisons! Prisons, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible since they are the crossroads of all the malediction in the world.…

— Jean Genet

“I cannot be critical of an infant whose only possible source of nourishment can be found in the dugs of a wolf.”

— Jack Henry Abbott

Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is…

— Yakov Smirnoff

“When a friend of mine boasted about living in a gated community, I thought he meant Folsom, and I wondered whether he…

— Ron Brackin

The sole relief I am asking for is to be released from military prison after serving six years of confinement as a…

— Chelsea Manning

Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. You know you're going to get it, but it's going…

— Adam Hills

Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way,…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“However confused I become, I will always hold close the notion that I could find freedom. I could leave this prison if…

— John Zelazny

“The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no…

— Oscar Wilde

When we shall come home, and enter into the possession of our Brother's fair kingdom, and when our heads shall find the…

— Samuel Rutherford

“There was no question that Jorge 'Billy' Nayor liked to get high; he just didn't think of himself as a drug dealer…

— Dinosaur in the Park Jorge Nayor

Prisons function by isolating those of us who are incarcerated from any means of support other than those charged with keeping us…

— Chelsea Manning

Singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' all the places we've been, it takes on a different meaning everywhere. When you sing the line,…

— Mary Travers

There are far too many people in prison with poorly understood disability, particularly cognitive and mental disabilities. We cannot tolerate a system…

— Bill Shorten

“Don't promote yourself as a country of constitutionality and compassion if you honestly believe that putting people in prison and treating them…

— Bernard B. Kerik

The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery

— Oscar Wilde

To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy.

— Leonard Peikoff

The prison psychiatrist asked me if I thought sex was dirty. I told him only when it's done right.

— Woody Allen

“When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says.”

— Anna Funder

Going to prison actually helped save my life, I believe.

— Prodigy

Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

— Ayn Rand

It was very cold in jail. But inmates were good. They shared their stories with me.

— Payal Rohatgi

“On the cool stone floor of their prison, Samheed and Lani huddled together to try to sleep.”

— Lisa McMann

I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in You.

— Rumi

I'm eternally grateful to the penal system in California for saving my life.

— Frank Morgan

'The greatest prison that people live in is the FEAR of what other people think of THEM!

— Andrew Guzaldo

Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.

— Anonymous

“All corners else o' th' earth Let liberty make use of- space enough Have I in such a prison.”

— Shakespeare's Globe

I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.

— Al Franken

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.

— Jeffrey Archer

“If you place belief on a pedestal, it will become your prison.”

— Ken Dickson