Prison Quotes · Page 42

My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all.

— Wentworth Miller

I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this…

— Carles Puigdemont

“My fate was sealed; court was adjourned, and I had been sentenced to a year.”

— Derrolyn Anderson

Wonderful, a death match on my first day behind bars. Some girls have all the luck

— Rachel Vincent

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.

— Lord Byron

People bragging about being in jail is a little immature. More like an fn idoit!

— Kevin McCarty

Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Obligation is a prison. To get out of it, we must serve our time.”

— Kamil Alvi

You don't need a lot of credentials to be prison guard in a federal prison. And, you know, you give them a…

— Abby Lee Miller

Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor…

— Tom Rachman

I was a target. There was a guy who took a paint roller extension pole and blasted me in the knee a…

— Tim Donaghy

I had a lot of friends who were also football players. Some of them ended up in prison, some of them had…

— Marko Arnautovic

Historically, there would always be people among the general population who had family members, friends, cousins who'd done time or who'd been…

— Hank Azaria

It's so important to raise people to grow up to be who they are and not be forced to be who they're…

— Marlo Thomas

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental…

— Cesare Pavese

Living among society's outcasts and experiencing the brutality of America's prison system did more to set (or confirm) the direction of my…

— David Dellinger

Sometimes, to help someone you love, you have to commit a felony. But, you don't want to go to prison for that.…

— Christopher Titus

“The massive prison construction represents a commitment by our nation to plan for social failure by spending billions of dollars to lock…

— Steven Donziger

In the case of a man and a woman [accused of commiting a crime together], both will often agree to the man…

— Warren Farrell

In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day…

— Anna Akhmatova

“And so, there in the penitentiary, Juan's education began. He didn't want to be a puto weakling, so he worked hard at…

— Victor Villaseñor

I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he…

— Bell Hooks

This stereotype that Black and brown boys and girls are dangerous or threatening has normalized systems of trauma: the cradle to prison…

— Cori Bush

Prison was a blessing. Going to prison was the greatest thing that happened to me. It showed me that I wasn't infallible.…

— Rick James

A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

— Samuel Johnson

Saying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will unlock the prison door.

— Arnaud Desjardins

This is a darker Lex too, because he's been in prison and he wants revenge. He's not playing around.

— Bryan Singer

You shouldn't have a profit motivation to fill prison cells with young Americans.

— Hillary Clinton

Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.

— Bobby Seale

“What’s a girl to wear to spend eternity in prison?’ – Evalle”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

— Malcolm X

I'm kind of a weirdo; I love prison movies and war movies.

— Kristin Chenoweth

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

— Craig L. Thomas

No mandatory prison term for employers who hire illegals.

— Mitt Romney

I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.

— Isadora Duncan

After the 1960 royal coup, I spent time in India - including three years in prison.

— Sushil Koirala

You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

— Aeschylus

If I was killed in prison. That would be a blessing right now.

— Jeffrey Dahmer