Prison Quotes · Page 34

Are you searching for your soul? Then come out of your own prison.

— Rumi

What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison.

— Malcolm X

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion

— Dan Simmons

Our society spends a lot of money on prison bars. For the sake of our kids, let's invest in monkey bars.

— Darell Hammond

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

— Adlai Stevenson I

“Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation”

— Malcolm Gladwell

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

— Barry McCaffrey

“Das Paradigma ist ein furchtbares Gefängnis. (The paradigm is a terrible prison.)”

— Anonymous

Our prison in Georgia is a very different place from this prison here in Berlin. The conditions there are inhuman.

— Irakli Okruashvili

You all must realize that Mandela was not the only man who suffered. There were many others - hundreds who languished in…

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

When I was released from prison 15 years ago, I was given a $25 check and a bus ticket and told to…

— Angela Stanton-King

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as…

— Jean Genet

“No sun cream or condoms, just in case you’re looking at the lady-boys. There’s plenty of AIDS lingering about and every STD…

— Simon Palmer

I didn't really know what to expect from detention but when I waked into the room, the first thought I had was,…

— Jeff Kinney

“Who cut him?' Sam liked saying things like 'Who cut him?' It reminded him of being a kid and watching prison movies,…

— Tod Goldberg

I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in…

— Assata Shakur

The religious philosophy that they had adopted, in my opinion, was the only thing and is the only thing that can remove…

— Malcolm X

What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out…

— Michael Vick

The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time…

— Arthur Koestler

One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What…

— Dorothy Day

“These men are in prison: that is the Outsider’s verdict. They are quite contented in prison—caged animals who have never known freedom;…

— Colin Wilson

Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight which…

— Ouida

When I was a child, I had an intense fear of going to prison. I wasn't on the run or anything -…

— Sara Pascoe

If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of…

— Bruce Chatwin

“What you took as yourself begins to look like a little prison-house far away in the valley beneath you.”

— G.I. Gurdjieff

Mine's [fans] a lot of like weird guys in prison. So I don't need to answer them.

— Lena Dunham

There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.

— William Shakespeare

You might be a redneck if you consider your license plate personalized because your dad made it in prison.

— Jeff Foxworthy

I am so mean I've handcuffed lightnin' and thrown thunder in jail.

— Muhammad Ali

“In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise”

— W.H. Auden

I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series.

— James Belushi

Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

— Marc Lamont Hill

It was a land of shadows and ice. Of gray. And grayer. And black. -The Unseelie prison of Aedan

— Karen Marie Moning

May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.

— Sammy Davis, Jr

“I was kind of excited to go to jail for the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.”

— Quentin Tarantino

'Prison Break' really changed me to somebody that can put butts in seats.

— Robert Knepper

I'm very appreciative and humbled by the success of 'Prison Break.'

— Dominic Purcell

Like you, I have been disgraced about what I've seen on TV that took place in prison.

— George W. Bush

“Even a ship can become a prison if all you see around you are bars.”

— Sabrina Jeffries

Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.

— Bill Watterson