Prison Quotes · Page 31

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

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

In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she…

— Joel McHale

Each time I left prison, I left with the resolve to get my life together, to get a job, to get back…

— Susan Burton

When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who…

— Laura Prepon

You can continue your practice, you can exercise kindness, you can practice meditation whether you're in a prison or a millionaire's house,…

— Pico Iyer

I think at some point I would like to meet my dad. He's in prison in the U.S. for life, so it's…

— DeAndre Yedlin

“I had never seen a prison, nor had I even imagined one, but there is a racial memory in man that instinctively…

— Bryce Courtenay

Jail just made me wiser. It made me smarter. It made me wake up to a lot of stuff. And also it…

— Boosie

My dad was assistant governor of the prison, so there were times when he would bring some of that discipline home. He…

— Viv Richards

He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may…

— John Locke

The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time. This is what really bothers you, that…

— Joseph Brodsky

Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting…

— Lani Guinier

An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful…

— Bronislaw Malinowski

No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost…

— William Shakespeare

There is no captive in a worse state than the one who is captivated by his worst enemy (Shaytan) and there is…

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Now the Thanksgiving meal is just so unnecessarily difficult. I mean even mashed potatoes - it's like the most difficult kind of,…

— Jim Gaffigan

“I've been in prison, you see. Only three weeks, and only on remand,but when you've had to play chess twice a day…

— Hugh Laurie

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

— Mark Twain

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

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

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

— Valerie Harper

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison.

— Nicholas Kristof

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

— Aung San Suu Kyi

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

— Huey Newton

Prison has taught me that there is a part of you that no-one can ever take from you, and that is your…

— Babar Ahmad

Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings…

— Angela Davis

The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

— John D. MacDonald

“Prison didn't frighten him especially. He had a lot of fans in there.”

— Joe Hill