Prison Quotes · Page 28

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

— Bobby Scott

If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.

— Vaclav Havel

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 life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows…

— Fernando Pessoa

This is the language of the world before—a world of chaos and confusion and happiness and despair—before the blitz turned streets to…

— Lauren Oliver

I have left my home, my family, and my job, and I am raising my voice. To do otherwise would betray those…

— Jamal Khashoggi

Though you'd never know it from reading the academic literature, some people in minority communities even see prison as potentially positive for…

— Heather Mac Donald

The most important issue is clearly not the quality of treatment and care of these prisoners; rather it is the perplexing issue…

— Anonymous

I knew early on that I was going to prison for the rest of my life and that there was nothing that…

— Isaac Wright Jr

I don't believe anyone can go through the prison experience without being changed by it. The experience becomes part of your identity…

— Patricia McConnell

I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to…

— Yves Klein

“It was granted me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

My father always said I would do something big one day.'I've got a feeling about you, John Osbourne,' he'd tell me, after…

— Ozzy Osbourne

“Just as a star suddenly flares to a hundred times its previous brightness -- and then fades away, so, too, a human…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I've been involved in activities with other people who were put in jail. We were protesting the closing of the prison farm…

— Margaret Atwood

“THE CURSE May they never Return home at night... May you have no part of eventide, May you have no room of…

— Visar Zhiti

For thirty years, Isreal has been highjacking ships in international waters, killing people, taking hostages, bringing them to Israel, putting them in…

— Noam Chomsky

“I had a chance to read Monte Christo in prison once, too, but not to the end. I observed that while Dumas…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When people hear the term 'political prisoner,' especially on the Left, it becomes a kind of abstraction. Folks are aware of injustice,…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

— Isaac Wright Jr

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

— Robert Vanleeuwen

Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason.

— Eric Holder

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

— Robert D. Hare

“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

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

— Judy Sheindlin

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

— Eazy-E

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

— Richard Wright

“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

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

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

— Scarlett Grove