Prison Quotes · Page 44

I told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose,

— Edward Snowden

Not to sound cynical, but all you ever learn in prison is how to be a better criminal.

— Ras Kass

Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.

— Tony Benn

“Aren't we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?”

— Ruthy Alon

“The greatest prison anyone can escape from is ignorance.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison.

— Henry Giroux

Remember that the Unification Church rose, not in freedom, but from a prison, the pit of suffering.

— Sun Myung Moon

During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem.

— Michael Vick

It seems to be the sense that once you throw guys in prison they're not going to come out. No, they're going…

— John Buffalo Mailer

I came home to four children, and I came home to two tombstones. My mother was in one and my grandmother was…

— Angela Stanton-King

Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common…

— Edward Gibbon

“With the instincts of convicts who discover the gates of their prison open, the individual oranges rolled in every direction to maximize…

— Amor Towles

I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs,…

— Matana Roberts

While I was in jail, they handcuffed me and took me to a backroom, where a detective from the FBI and a…

— Sherman Austin

I loved to read books in the free world, and there was a lot of time to sit around and do nothing…

— Anthony Ray Hinton

I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000…

— Jean Giono

It was a dangerous profession I had chosen ... because no one likes a funny kid. In fact, adults are scared silly…

— Art Buchwald

If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Americans make associations to give entertainment, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

We keep a woman in prison for decade after decade at a cost of $60,000 a year, and then give them $200…

— Susan Burton

Sometimes it seems like we're all living in some kind of prison, and the crime is how much we all hate ourselves.…

— Winnie Holzman

So long as there are poor, - I am poor, - So long as there are prisons, - I am a prisoner,…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“We’re not broken. We’re not in the wrong bodies. We’re not inadequate. We’re not lesser. We’re not unwanted. We’re not fraudulent. We’re…

— Agnostic Zetetic

Well, there's a bright side to this for Ken Lay. You know, throughout the years Ken Lay has been a big campaign…

— Jay Leno

Instead of schools being a pipeline to opportunity, schools are feeding our prisons.

— Henry Giroux

My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing.

— Sylvia Plath

Thousands of people go to jail, go to prison, every year without even meeting with an attorney.

— Michelle Alexander

“How can a prisoner plot his escape if he doesn’t believe a world exists outside the prison walls?”

— Skye Jethani

Why, when God's world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places?

— Rumi

The world's 'freeest' country has the highest number in prison.

— Arundhati Roy

“Only prisoners were ever granted easy passage into a prison.”

— Scott Lynch

If it doesn't make sense, you should find for the defense.

— Johnnie Cochran

For me, prison is a necessary step towards achieving the right to self-determination.

— Jordi Cuixart

Become placeless, for to change this place of water and clay is but to move from one prison to another.

— Saib Tabrizi

A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.

— Eugene V. Debs

If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to prison because I will kill him.

— Mario

I don't want to sound too cryptic, but if it wasn't for MMA, I'd probably be in prison.

— Sean Strickland

I have been to Guantanamo. It's a model prison. Is it ideal? No. But we live in a very un-ideal world.

— Peter T. King

The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

— Walter Raleigh

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

— Elbert Hubbard