Prison Quotes · Page 78

In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in…

— Merle Haggard

I guess Satan was the first superhero [...] In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two…

— Joe Hill

Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I've spent a lot of time in prisons, first doing legal work and later, teaching.

— Peter Orner

Prison was a learning experience. I learned to be patient.

— Mark Morrison

There was zero time for reflection. We had to feed the prisoners three meals a day, deal with the prisoner breakdowns, deal…

— Philip Zimbardo

When we first started to write our first movie, 'You Are Going To Prison,' we wanted it to be crazy and unique,…

— Robert Ben Garant

I know the air of hopelessness and what people in prison go through.

— Isaac Wright Jr

“Is it always in the interest of the public safety to seek the prosecutor's traditional solution -- the harshest penalty possible? Or…

— Edward Humes

When you're poor and black in America, you stand a greater chance of going to prison for something you didn't do.

— Anthony Ray Hinton

The piebald mare paws at the sand; I see her digging out of the corner of my eye and hear her grinding…

— Maggie Stiefvater

I could survive in a Turkish prison, probably.

— Rich Fulcher

The European Union has become a prison of peoples. Each of the 28 countries that constitute it has slowly lost its democratic…

— Marine Le Pen

What do prisoners do? Write, of course; even if they have to use blood as ink, as the Marquis de Sade did.…

— Alice Weaver Flaherty

Genre is a minimum security prison.

— David Shields

Behind every great man in prison is another great man in prison.

— Bob Saget

Whatever success I have achieved, whatever positions of leadership I have held have depended less on Ivy League degrees or SAT scores…

— Barack Obama

I was always shocked in prison because it's a scary place. It's not natural to lock that many people up like that,…

— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.

— John Grisham

In California, thieves have three choices: They can go to prison, Sacramento, or Washington D.C.

— Burt Prelutsky

We live in a society that will send us to prison if we make use of time-honored sacred plants to explore our…

— Graham Hancock

So more and more black folk tend to be well-adjusted to [Barack] Obama's presidency, but does that mean they're well-adjusted to injustice?…

— Cornel West

What they say about being in prison is true. That moment when the door closes, time stands still.

— Joey Barton

Forgotten tones of love recur to us, and kind glances shine out of the past--oh so bright and clear!--oh so longed after!--because…

— William Makepeace Thackeray