Prison Quotes · Page 30

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

— Trilla

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

— Susan Burton

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

— Kathleen Flinn

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

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

Thus, seamed with many scars Bursting these prison bars, Up to its native stars My soul ascended! There from the flowing bowl…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“...[C]ulture-learned behavior patterns so deeply engrained they produce unconscious involuntary reactions-is a prison.”

— John Howard Griffin

“It's easily possible that someone who spends a Week inside Prison with you, gets to know you better than someone who knew…

— Sino Melo

“Prison is the easiest way out for authority, as locks and keys are the warden's simplest tools. It does not require strong…

— Lewis E. Lawes

Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.

— Raegan Butcher

Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The USA has more people in prison that any other country, including countries with much larger populations. 13% of the population is…

— Harry Belafonte

I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time…

— David Soul

As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take…

— Jenny Downham

With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate…

— John Spratt

The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes…

— George Bernard Shaw

For many of us, the hospital was as much a refuge as it was a prison. Though we were cut off from…

— Susanna Kaysen

“If the incarceration experience doesn't break your spirit, it changes you in a way that you lose many fears. You begin to…

— Michael Lewis

Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded,…

— Peter McWilliams

When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, 'Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!' And I'm like, 'Okay I don't know you, I…

— Sherri Shepherd

When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be…

— Julian Assange

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

— Jarod Kintz

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

“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

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

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Tahereh Mafi