Prison Quotes · Page 25

“It’s not true that selling stolen goods has no overhead. Prison’s got a ceiling.”

— Jarod Kintz

Sometimes the longer you are inside a prison, the harder it is to fathom what is possible beyond its walls.

— Suki Kim

I thought of 24 Sussex Drive as the crown jewel of the federal penitentiary system.

— Margaret Trudeau

I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.

— Etheridge Knight

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

— Anonymous

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I often wondered if I'd be better off in prison, until I met that ray of sunshine - Claire MacKenna”

— Scarlett Grove

Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.

— Evan Esar

I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had…

— Megan Whalen Turner

It's difficult to seek other people's love. It's deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we…

— Byron Katie

It's natural for humans to suppress urges, for when our desires are left unchecked they lead to broken relationships, prison time, and…

— Amy Sedaris

Why am I running for president? Well, my wife, Cindy, says it is because I sustainedseveral severe blows to the head in…

— John McCain

I don't have any intentions to return to England. I would go back if I could return as a free person. I…

— Ronald Biggs

Oftentimes, when I was reporting on conflict somewhere in the world or prison or wherever I might be, I'd be struck by…

— Lawrence Wright

Even with me going to prison, it could have put a bad stigma on my name. But you keep going. When people…

— J Hus

I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self…

— Lewis H. Lapham

When Private Bradley [aka Chelsea] Manning put his conscience ahead of his personal well-being by allegedly releasing important information to the world's…

— Ray McGovern

“At first, the drudgery of mastering your craft is a prison—boring, slow, and with an awareness of how much time you’ll have…

— Jarod Kintz

“(From Danielle Raver's short story THE ENCHANTRESS) Thick chains attached to the wall hold a metal collar and belt, restraining most of…

— Danielle Raver

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Imagine the thoughts of serial killer and mutilator Jeffrey Dahmer when he ended up in prison. He felt great remorse, which he…

— Roy Ratcliff

Very close by the CMS shops, hidden about a quarter mile away in the woods, was the prison's rifle range. Correctional officers…

— Piper Kerman

We also had a beautiful feature where the writer used the story of two mentally ill relatives, one of whom killed his…

— Clara Jeffery

“And what makes you so certain I won't enlighten the world about your romantic indiscretions?" "Because it won't save you from prison.…

— Richelle Mead

Like the bright, cool dawn after a night of prison and of thunder, Man can taste that freedom sought so long.

— L. Ron Hubbard

“Shit goes out, and dick goes in. This is the way of the prisoner.”

— Jarod Kintz

In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

— Henry David Thoreau

Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.

— Richard Wright

What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.

— Eazy-E

A period of detention in a chilly upstate facility can be a great attitude adjuster.

— Judy Sheindlin

“One thing he had learned early, you do your own time in prison. You don’t do anyone else’s time for them.”

— Neil Gaiman

I'm almost positive I have some type of PTSD. Almost a decade of my life was consumed by the prison system.

— Remy Ma

A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight — and when they come out, they’re gay.

— Benjamin Carson

When you go to prison, you don't feel like a superstar. It really humbles you as a person.

— Remy Ma

Only difference between me and other actors is Ive spent more time in jail.

— Robert Mitchum

“There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.”

— G.K. Chesterton

Saving Edward Snowden from prison is one of WikiLeaks' achievements of which I am most proud.

— Sarah Harrison

Prison is not meant to be comfortable. It's not meant to be somewhere anyone would ever want to go back to.

— Chris Grayling

“If you never assume the truth, you'll never be shackled by a lie.”

— Robert Vanleeuwen

I got sentenced in 1991. It's 2020, and my family and I have not discussed what happened to me.

— Isaac Wright Jr