Prison Quotes · Page 41

It's not the people who are in prison worry me. It's the people who aren't.

— Arthur Gore

Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.

— Adam Ant

If, someday, we all go to prison for downloading music; I hope they separate us by genres.

— Anonymous

“For some, guilt is a stronger prison than love or happiness.”

— Death-T.A. Chase Pestilence

We rarely have good alternatives to offer to prison - that's our default.

— James Forman, Jr

Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.

— Robert Greene

Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?

— Anonymous

What do people in prison say when they meet new friends? Give me your cell number.

— Dana Gould

Over the years I've learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His…

— Joyce Meyer

One of the things about incarceration is that you're deprived. You lose all of your identity, and then its given back one…

— Susan Burton

Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact…

— Henry Giroux

You have people there from all walks of life: people who made mistakes and have to deal with the consequences, mothers and…

— Prodigy

“And freedom? Oh, freedom. Well that's just some people talking. Your prison is walking through this world all alone.”

— Jacqueline Woodson

“exchange of “hostages” unjustly held in Western prisons. The motive changes according to circumstance. Sometimes the unlucky”

— Anonymous

America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

— Bruce Jackson

He likes to eat hardy, party. Be like John Gotti, and drive a Maserati. Rough in the ghetto, but in jail he's…

— Kool G Rap

I said to myself if Christianity is dead, I will sit at its tomb and will weep until it arises again, just…

— Richard Wurmbrand

“However, nothing is all too bad, and there were many good people to meet in prison from all over Africa with interesting…

— Daoud Hari

“Half the published articles on Gaza contain a standard reference to its resemblance to a vast open-air prison (and when I last…

— Christopher Hitchens

We were all blocked from western media, outside information. We were captured in a virtual prison cell. People would disappear in the…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

“The thoughts of a prisoner—they're not free either. They kept returning to the same things. A single idea keeps stirring. Would they…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

I did not want to be mistreated, I did not want to be deprived of a seat that I had paid for.…

— Rosa Parks

“Part of this is related to the vast apparatus created to administer the criminal-justice system; part is related to the new laws…

— David Cay Johnston

We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are…

— John Donne

I lost years of my life to prison because of two-dimensional and misogynist stereotypes.

— Amanda Knox

I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.

— Jack Layton

I worked at a mortgage company, and after I left, most of the office went to jail.

— John Pinette

I'm going to do the time and I am going to do it the right way

— Paris Hilton

Keeping my family out of prison best I can. That is success to me. I created that without selling records.

— Yo Gotti

When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.

— Martha Stewart

Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!

— David Mitchell

The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.

— Eugene V. Debs

I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.

— Nelson Mandela

I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse.

— Eskinder Nega

We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.

— Maxine Kumin

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

— Denis Healey

The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body

— Michel Foucault

My 15 years of freedom have been harder than all of my death row years combined.

— Nick Yarris

The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

— Jean Cocteau

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

— Charles Bukowski