Prison Quotes · Page 32

I grew up in a family where my brother was in prison. My father was in prison.

— Yo Gotti

“Perfection is an awful prison, which shackles the soul and chains the spirit in shame and despair.”

— David Foster

No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.

— Michael Moore

I was in prison and I was an atheist. I didn't believe in anything.

— Malcolm X

We need to fight for free education and defund the prisons

— Chris Crass

My early memories are full of fear - of going to school crying, where food was very similar to prison food.

— Tony Adams

Give them bible when they are young not when they are in prison. - adaeze don

— Adaeze Don

This is my last cry Is this the only way? This is my own prison Im frozen in time, in time, in…

— Nicki Minaj

“Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are destined to live…

— John Connolly

The prison scandal is really hurting President Bush's poll numbers. In fact, I hear he's already working on his concession smirk.

— Craig Kilborn

Exacerbating the problem of mass incarceration is that, even after someone is released from prison, the stigma of a misdemeanor or felony…

— Stan Van Gundy

“Parents in prison don’t help with homework. They don’t help pay the bills. They don’t corral youngsters on bedtime patrol, advocate for…

— Terry Marselle

Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run…

— Terry Pratchett

I believe God talks to us in mysterious ways. I knew if I did not pay attention to His message, I was…

— Richard Cabral

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength…

— William Shakespeare

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to…

— Lech Walesa

Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts…

— Piper Kerman

A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights…

— Gerry Spence

“There’s a guy like me in every state and federal prison in America, I guess—I’m the guy who can get it for…

— Stephen King

“the fundamental question Juvenile Court was designed to ask - What's the best way to deal with this individual kid? - is…

— Edward Humes

From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Morality has in the past made progress when we broadened the category of things we weren't permitted to harm (animals, 'infidels'); saw…

— Catherine Wilson

Some of the folks we see are in for defending themselves against their abusers, or drug charges that, because of the California…

— Thao Nguyen

With Pussy Riot - this was a prank! It was a brilliant, artistically gifted prank. But they didn't expect to go to…

— Masha Gessen

“...those who are locked up know better than their jailers the taste of free air.”

— Hélène Cixous

When I arrived in prison, they locked the prison down that day because the media was all over the place.

— Jack Abramoff

Mandela? He lasted 27 years in prison but he never could've done 30.

— Serge Ibaka

Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

'Prison Break' on Netflix has generated a whole new generation of viewers.

— Dana Walden

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

— Mitchell Burgess

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

— Philip Emeagwali

Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.

— Jessica Mitford

I bet in prison everyones fb relationship status is set to 'its complicated.'

— Anonymous

It is in prison ... that one becomes a real revolutionary.

— Vladimir Lenin

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

— Edmund Burke

I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me.

— George Jackson

“that jail existed for the opposite reason from why your home existed”

— Richard Ford

Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

— Angela Davis

“Issues are like tissues. You pull one out and another appears!”

— Gary Goldstein

Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.

— Zoroaster