Prison Quotes · Page 45

Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.

— Joyce Cary

“The illusion of freedom is just another sort of prison-”

— Lisa Mantchev

Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.

— Pierre Charron

Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.

— Will Rogers

Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison.

— Freddy Fender

Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.

— Eugene V. Debs

Every time that I have ever tried to help a woman out, I have been incarcerated.

— Jose Canseco

Look, I promise I’m not psychotic. Eccentric and idiosyncratic, but not psychotic. (Sebastian) I’ll bet the prisons are full of men who…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I'm playing somebody who is a recovering drug addict who got out of prison. It takes place in 2 weeks-the 1st 2…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

We will not put our sons in prison for political membership or resisting occupation, because occupation is the reason for the problem.

— Said Seyam

“It's too bad war makes people disappear like chess pieces, and that prisons turn prisoners into movie endings.”

— Major Jackson

Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can…

— Lil Wayne

My main dream - and I'm trying to get 'Living TV' to do it - is to go into prison and interview…

— Katie Price

“He records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success…

— Stephen R. Covey

During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone…

— Julian Assange

I had to find meaning in it. So I go through this, I see all these homies die; I see all this…

— Luis J. Rodriguez

I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges,…

— Nazanin Boniadi

I think of all the things that I've gotten to do, all the wonderful people that I've played with, being in the…

— Paul Shaffer

The occupation is really terrible on a variety of levels. It's terrible on the "shooting people and torturing people in prison" level.…

— Molly Crabapple

“I heard this story once," she said, "where this bloke got locked up for years and years and he learned amazin' stuff…

— Terry Pratchett

Khodorkovsky is richest man. And he lost everything when Putin arrested him and took his company away, and essentially took his company…

— Anne Applebaum

As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,…

— Julian Assange

The whole family is a bunch of dangerous freaks...Most are ex-cons or junkies or deranged from inbreeding. Five have died violently, three…

— Tim Dorsey

I went to jail. I looked like one of those savings-and-loan guys leaving the jail house.

— Dave Winfield

My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.

— Maajid Nawaz

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.

— Nelson Mandela

Jail was a result of me not taking time for myself. So I was forced to take some time for myself.

— Christian Slater

“We have more prisoners locked up on drug charges than the continent of Europe has in total prisoners. It’s”

— Andrew Heaton

I've been going to visit people in prison since I was a kid.

— Yo Gotti

I want to look at the community I came from and what role incarceration has played there.

— Roger Ross Williams

I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life.

— Gary Gilmore

The policeman said to me, son they won't build no schools anymore. All they'll build will be prison.

— Lucky Dube

In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

— Robert Burns

I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.

— Gregory Corso

Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer.

— P. W. Botha

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

— Philip Emeagwali

[On travel:] Who would be so besotted as to die without having made at least the round of this, his prison?

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.

— John Milton

It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and…

— Howard Zinn