Prison Quotes · Page 92

How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of…

— Herman Melville

I won't go back on my decision. I'm not afraid of prison, but there are even worse dangers.

— Bidzina Ivanishvili

I put my mum through a lot of stress; police would be coming to the house... It just seemed normal to me,…

— J Hus

Filesharing in Sweden can't get you into prison, so there's nothing criminal about helping people to fileshare.

— Peter Sunde

“oh shit it's shit”

— Stephen King

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

— Will Rogers

If there was one senator who could truly empathize with being tortured in prison, it was John McCain.

— Bill Browder

One of the most recent things we did [in Perceval Press] is a reissue of a fantastic documentary about Russian prison tattoo…

— Viggo Mortensen

She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than…

— Pat Conroy

I have been shown in darkness, light [and] have learned that, even in prison, one can be free,

— Kayla Mueller

People come out of prison and aren't treated like I've been treated. I didn't kill anybody. I didn't violate anybody's rights. My…

— Mary Beth Whitehead

I think coming out, for me, is really about tearing down the prison wall.

— Robert Gant

The employer is not going to choose the gang member who's just been released from prison: they're going to choose the person…

— Greg Boyle

How many prison years in the years since Christ!

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally…

— George Ripley

We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighers did in Hungary…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who's miserable in it - men and women alike - and anyone who's suffered…

— Adam Ross

I always said that if I wasn't studying psychopaths in prison, I'd do it at the stock exchange.

— Robert D. Hare

Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.

— Joseph Brodsky

It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in…

— Ludwig von Mises

The living grave of crime.

— Joaquin Miller

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

— Denis Healey

In 1990 there were about 300 scripts being written demanding the release of Nelson Mandela. And suddenly we watched Mandela walking out…

— John Kani

We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of…

— Pablo Picasso

I love the academy in terms of the life of the mind and the world of ideas. I also love the streets.…

— Cornel West