Prison Quotes · Page 30

I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks.

— Rumi

OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

— Ambrose Bierce

“If you throw an innocent man in prison, he'll start to doubt that he's indeed innocent.”

— Luca Rossi

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

— Karl Kraus

There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.

— Pat Brown

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

— Gloria Steinem

In jail, you just zone out, so that's the thing. That's like a cheat code.

— King Von

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any theoretical, scientific…

— Renzo Novatore

I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I…

— Andrew Fastow

One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well…

— Lewis Tappan

“...any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people…

— Evelyn Waugh

Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than…

— Peter Kropotkin

“That’s a federal crime,” I told him. “Punishable by three to five years in a minimum-security prison. You’ll get passed around like…

— T.J. Klune

“It's not like they can take anything from me,' he says later, back with his homeboys in Juvenile Hall. 'Ain't got nothing…

— Edward Humes

I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for…

— Piper Kerman

It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly…

— Anthony Bourdain

We're all our own prisons, we are each all our own wardens and we do our own time. I can't judge anyone…

— Charles Manson

Once somebody is known, it seems as though anybody anywhere can say anything about them. Whereas if I simply stopped someone in…

— Anonymous

If Americans actually have the conversation about our disastrous prison policies, we'll understand the trends all move in very dangerous directions: we…

— Dahlia Lithwick

You still owe me a million dollars." I'd presented him with a bill for proving his innocence and getting him freed from…

— Darynda Jones

When one in three Black men are in prison, those larger systemic injustices become a part of what it means to love…

— Shane Claiborne

Memory is a dead thing. Memory is not truth and cannot ever be, because truth is always alive, truth is life; memory…

— Rajneesh

“Cage an eagle and it will bite at the wires, be they of iron or of gold.”

— Henrik Ibsen

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

— Suge Knight

Behind every great man in prison is another great man in prison.

— Bob Saget

“Libraries and Prison are playing same role but both places give you some lesson in your life.”

— Abid Hussain Library Officer

Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

— Patrick McGoohan

When you live your whole life in a prison freedom can be so dull

— Jaden Smith

We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.

— Augusto Pinochet

“The blind inmates advanced like archangels surrounded by their own splendour.”

— José Saramago

Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.

— Ouida

I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?

— Lorrie Moore

“I tell ya, I know the best way to get girls. I hang out at women's prisons, and wait for parolees.”

— Rodney Dangerfield

There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.

— Tommy Chong

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

— William Blake

I escaped my destiny. The odds were that I would end up in prison, but I didn't.

— Roger Ross Williams

Being here feels like I'm out of prison. This is the right place, the right time, the right team.

— Shaquille O'Neal

Being in jail, it's humbled me in a way I never imagined.

— Foxy Brown