Prison Quotes · Page 37

The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.

— Christopher Lasch

Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times!

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“It is a common experience among jailbirds to wake up and wonder why they are in jail”

— Kurt Vonnegut

When you're in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.

— Kevin Gates

“On the inner side of the aquarium of reality, beliefs define the area of the prison.”

— Robert Neil Fleischer

When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails.

— David Gerrold

“She knew that the freedom was in herself, just as the prison had been.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

One of the frustrations of prison life, which is also one of its intended consequences, is that the prisoner is made ineffective.…

— Hisham Matar

When I was in the penitentiary after being accused of killing a policeman, I was more in the system in the penitentiary…

— Huey Newton

And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to…

— Albert Camus

Oh spare me, being stuck in your bedroom is not like prison. You don't have to worry about being gang-raped in your…

— Justin Halpern

I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to…

— John McCain

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot…

— Jean Genet

I started seeing how I wanted my story to be told. Going to jail is one of the best things that happened…

— Lil Tjay

I grew up in the South Wales valleys, but I think my parents realised from quite an early age that if they…

— Thighpaulsandra

I directed and produced Conviction, a movie about a man who spent 18 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit.…

— Tony Goldwyn

I think part of why schizophrenia got linked to civil rights protest in the '60s was because mainstream society was coding threats…

— Jonathan Michel Metzl

Have you seen the cover of Newsweek? They have Martha Stewart on the cover, but it's not actually Martha. It's a doctored…

— Jay Leno

“The Brinktown jail is one of the most ingenious ever propounded by civic authorities. It must be remembered that Brinktown occupies the…

— Jack Vance

Although prison officials have long battled illegal cellphones, smartphones have changed the game. With Internet access, a prisoner can call up phone…

— Kim Severson

Who would have ever thought I'd find love, contentment and joy in a prison cell, but I did. I knew that I…

— Christian Hosoi

As the U.S. prison population has surged over the decades, the legal profession's distaste for former inmates has become more conspicuous. And…

— Mary Pilon

Christians don't steal or lie, they don't get divorced or have abortions. If the Ten Commandments were followed by everyone we would…

— John Hagee

“Prison for me is not taking away my freedom, but taking away my coffee.”

— Sotero M Lopez II

[Some men are shortsighted, so] going to prison or going to hell just doesn't matter to these men.

— Rodney Stark

When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?

— Jim Bakker

I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.

— Daniel Defoe

“The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.”

— Sir Walter Raleigh

Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.

— Tyler Perry

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

— Saadi

I've spent a lot of time in prisons, first doing legal work and later, teaching.

— Peter Orner

An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.

— Joe Biden

It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.

— Molly Ivins

“Compared to Hell, this jail cell is like a five-star hotel.”

— M.F. Hopkins

Even if I was in prison, I could be free in my head. I can adapt easily.

— Azzedine Alaia

We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

See, you're out your mind tryin' to face tha God. Your rhyme is like an empty prison...a waste of bars.

— Lord Finesse

“Turn the cell into a classroom and the prison into a university”

— Khalil Osiris

The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne