Prison Quotes · Page 16

Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?

— Anonymous

Building prisons to fight crime is like building cemeteries to fight disease.

— Jack Levin

Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.

— Truman Capote

When we put someone in our jail cell of hatred, we are stuck guarding the door.

— Max Lucado

I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.

— Daniel Alarcon

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison.

— Daniel Tosh

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

— Antonia Fraser

I had to face imprisonment and house arrests, but it made me tougher.

— Asma Jahangir

“This is central to the development of feminist abolitionist theories and practices: we have to learn how to think and act and…

— Angela Y. Davis

When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire…

— Anais Nin

The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. The country with one-twentieth of the world's population has…

— Randall Robinson

Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.

— Anonymous

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he…

— Ishmael Reed

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

— Robert Breault

You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison.…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words,…

— Mervyn Peake

“Violence is already active here; it is built into the very structure od the existing society. If we seek a world in…

— Barbara Deming

People bring up Willie Horton or some other political bombshell in the past, but what they're not being intellectually honest about is…

— Thom Tillis

“A year as an inmate in Kamĩtĩ has taught me what should have been obvious: that the prison system is a repressive…

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

When [Nelson Mandela] was in prison I admired him for his moral strength... Of his period in power I can see few…

— Mengistu Haile Mariam

“I stared out the window, at the whitecapped mountains in the distance. It was strange, looking at them from the other side.…

— Charles Martin

“Moreover, in the system of criminal punishment in the libertarian world, the emphasis would never be, as it is now, on "society's"…

— Murray N. Rothbard

I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that I…

— Antonio Gramsci

I hated women before I went to prison. I always felt like women were trying to tear each other down.

— Remy Ma

I saw worse stuff inside prison than I ever saw in the streets.

— Bernard Hopkins

The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.

— John F. Kennedy

We are all prisoners of the ideas of the times we live in.

— Svetlana Alexievich

“The current social organization is a sophisticated lie and invisible prison without bars.”

— Bryant McGill

That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

— Anonymous

If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.

— Chaka Khan

Fear is the strongest prison and courage is the only way out!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Any time you see a white guy in jail, you know he did something bad.

— Will Smith

A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

— Clarence Darrow

All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

— John Donne

“It’s like a prison. Okay, it is a prison. There’s the problem right there.”

— Gennifer Choldenko

I don't need your prison I don't need your pain. I don't need your decision So what should I do?

— Dope

“We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.”

— Piper Kerman

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

— Ho Chi Minh

I know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence.

— John McCain