Prison Quotes · Page 33

Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.

— Cheri Huber

The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

“A prison cell, however tastefully decorated, is still a cage.”

— Darren Main

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

— Anonymous

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

— Aristotle

“The mind can be a prison or a prism...I choose the latter.”

— Paige Bleu

In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

— George Bernard Shaw

Chopper Read attended a writing school I gave for inmates at Risdon Prison in Hobart many years ago. Even if I hadn't…

— Garry Disher

Our prisons are very bad. When I was in Ikoyi prison, people were dying every day. They were carrying bodies out of…

— Fela Kuti

The national laws of the five regions of India prescribe no cangue, beatings or prison. Those who are guilty are fined in…

— Hyecho

Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you…

— Pascal Mercier

If you ran a company with a failure rate of 68 percent, how long do you think you would stay in business?…

— Josh Shapiro

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

— William Gilmore Simms

I had an empathy for prisoners and did concerts for them back when I thought that it would make a difference -…

— Johnny Cash

“Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.”

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a…

— David Hume

I never realized how much I've become dependent on human approval until God took it away. I didn't even realize that I…

— Tullian Tchividjian

By the end of the documentary [ '13th'], you really understand what prison is, what the prison industrial complex is, where this…

— Ava DuVernay

The requests started coming in from other prisoners all over the United States. And then the word got around. So I always…

— Johnny Cash

I'll tell you what I think is not okay. Have you ever seen that show on MSNBC, 'Lockup?' It's a reality show…

— Seth MacFarlane

“That’s the biggest danger of incarceration: you get used to it. It’s not the goon in the bathroom with a blade hidden…

— Jacques Pauw

I loved WWE , but in the end, I was unhappy. It was just like planning an escape from a maximum security…

— Cody Rhodes

When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime,…

— Uzo Aduba

After I screwed up and went to jail, the first day I got out, I got a job at the UFC Gym…

— Mike Perry

I've been to Villawood Detention Centre in Sydney and it's all barbed wire, it's like a big jail.

— Anh Do

“Theism is a self imposed prison where the jailer and prisoner are one.”

— Lance Seivert

Language controls how you are perceived by others, and in that sense, it is a prison.

— Glenn Ligon

The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated

— Lewis Tappan

“I’ll get you wetter than a banana in a women's prison.”

— Courtney Lane

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?

— Jessica Mitford

“Prisons are built to break men, and when men are broken society has consummated its revenge”

— Jan Valtin

People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental.

— Hill Harper

“prison for writing seditious articles, and made use of”

— Adrian Vickers

All during that prison time I really lived by prayer. Be in prayer always, we're told, and back then I was.

— Diet Eman

Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.

— Neal A. Maxwell

“Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.”

— Alan Moore

“Every word has a meaning, Every work has a reason, Every song has a pain, Every love has a prison.”

— Lalit Majrikar

The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.

— Tony Blair