Prison Quotes · Page 29

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— L. Ron Hubbard

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

— Evan Esar

I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.

— Ava DuVernay

“The majority of people who are in prison are there because society has failed them.”

— Angela Y. Davis

“She was just released from prison and forgot what a man felt like.”

— Bella Jeanisse

All of us have not been to a natural prison, but everybody in here has had a spiritual prison.

— Anonymous

I spent five years in prison, a free man for the first time in my whole life.

— Christian Hosoi

“Some "free" people are more imprisoned than those that are locked away. Trapped in narrow mindsets, they carry their mental prison with…

— Joan Marques

“IN ALL THE YEARS I’ve spent here at Salton Sea State Penitentiary, I swear I never met a scarier man than Big…

— Joshua Graham

I place these numbed wrists to the pane watching white uniforms whisk over him in the tube-kept prison fear what they will…

— Anonymous

People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.

— Richard Paul Evans

I thought, 'This is not going to drag me down, this is going to make me a better man.' So I came…

— Gino D'Acampo

Wow. Clearly, I need to find myself an ex-con. Since prison is probably the only place in this city I haven’t looked…

— Julie James

When my daughter was born, I called her Ella Bella Mandela, because she was born the day after Mandela was released from…

— Phil Daniels

I was certainly naïve about the judicial system in America. There's a lot of people who are in prison who are innocent.…

— Sam Rockwell

I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for…

— Juliette Binoche

Many times, I left the prison thinking, 'I'm smart. I can make it. I won't get caught up again.' But you get…

— Susan Burton

Kids are growing up in communities in which they see their loved ones cycling in and out of prison and in which…

— Michelle Alexander

... imprisonment itself, entailing loss of liberty, loss of citizenship, separation from family and loved ones, is punishment enough for most individuals,…

— Mary B. Harris

Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often…

— Rick Atkinson

We don't want to hurt anybody, kill anybody, build any prisons, or build police. We want to make it unnecessary for people…

— Jacque Fresco

Truth is a pursuit, it's a quest. And proof is certainly in the pudding in this particular instance, because the film, and…

— Errol Morris

America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that…

— Bill Johnson

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

— Jarod Kintz

America has 2.2 million of it's citizens incarcerated. It's a statistic we should be ashamed of...

— Henry Rollins

Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.

— Samuel Rutherford

My biggest fear growing up was that I would end up in prison. That was the fate of growing numbers of my…

— David Lammy

As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.

— George Sand

“When you spend your life taking care of mudmen, you can't help getting a little dirty yourself.”

— Stephen King

“We’re not exactly heavenly angels. More like prison inmates with wings.”

— Keri Lake

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

— Robin Hobb

The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.

— Anonymous

He could'nt get laid in a womens prison with a hand full of pardons.

— Unknow

If your heart was a prison I would like to be sentence for life

— Musa Ngoqwana

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

— Daryl Gates

The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy.

— Warren W. Wiersbe

You know you are in prison when you try to please everyone.

— Ewshy Crazyness

On the 60 days he spent in prison after being caught with marijuana.

— Robert Mitchum

That's all the freedom we canhope for - the freedom to choose our prison. [...]

— Lucy Maud Montgomery