Prison Quotes · Page 39

I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society.

— Jack Abbott

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

— Ovid

Behind bars, everyone's an inmate. Everybody has their skeletons; everybody has their story.

— Brian Banks

“I am flagrantly nuts. I can say this because I am a doctor and I know about these things.”

— Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker

Letting people out of prison without professional staff to oversee their rehabilitation is irresponsible.

— Sadiq Khan

“Fear is a prison where you are the jailer. Free yourself!”

— Bryant McGill

I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.

— John Bunyan

Are you a guard in prison maximum security? Is that you? is that you? Is that you?

— Jennifer Hudson

Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. Walk out like someone…

— Rumi

A lot of times, people say, 'You're so much like Loretta or Tammy Wynette.' But I feel kind of like one of…

— Margo Price

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels…

— Danny Glover

Dare to do something worth of exile and prison if you mean to be anybody. Virtue is praised and left to freeze.…

— Juvenal

To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of…

— Anonymous

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Put two macho groups together and give the first desperation and numbers, and the second truncheons and protective clothing, and the result…

— Alexander Masters

I wish you could go back twenty years when the world was in your fist And really when I was in prison…

— Mak_786

For every woman and girl violently attacked, we reduce our humanity. For every woman forced into unprotected sex because men demand this,…

— Nelson Mandela

After 'Paths to Freedom,' I met some people who used to teach drama in Mountjoy and they said that the prisoners loved…

— Michael McElhatton

For those of us in the opposition movement under dictatorships, part of our job is confronting police and spending time in prison.…

— Liu Xiaobo

Gaza is often described as 'the world's largest open air prison' because no one is allowed to enter or leave. But that…

— Banksy

The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them…

— Albert Camus

“The main difference is that the enlightened believe that the poor criminal should be rehabilitated while the righteous believe that the immoral…

— William Ryan

The main point in our report was to recommend decriminalization...because of the way laws are applied, which have not worked. We have…

— Kofi Annan

“HM Belmarsh prison, or Hellmarsh as the inmates call it, is a category A prison situated in the South East of London.…

— Anonymous

“When you are born into bondage you can't see the prison.”

— Bryant McGill

One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.

— Plato

Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

— Michel Foucault

Before you can break out of prison, you must realize you are locked up.

— Anonymous

“The bars of jail shall make you frail. Now that's poetry for you.”

— E.J. Norris

Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.

— James Anthony Froude

I have done my fair share of visiting Suge in jail over the years.

— Michel'le

It's not fun being locked in a six foot by eight foot cell.

— Wes Moore

I'm the rainbow in your jail cell, all the memories of everything you've ever smelled.

— Red Hot Chili Peppers

Most people named Willie are either in prison or on the armwrestling circuit.

— Jase Robertson

If you are not building rooms where wisdom can be openly spoken, you are building a prison. -

— Ritu Ghatourey

“Even love can be a prison if it tries to force you into a mold that’s too small.”

— Devon Herrera

We will never build enough prisons to end our crime problem.

— Hillary Clinton

When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.

— Stedman Graham

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

— Jeffrey Archer