Prison Quotes · Page 31

“Social networks are jails for those who escape from reality.”

— Muradous

My years in jail were a bit like a workshop for my - that actually forged my way of thinking and my…

— Jose Mujica

All these rappers on stage and Martha Stewart has done the most jail time.

— Natasha Leggero

Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us.

— Neil Gaiman

I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.

— Jeffrey Archer

I couldn't get on a 'Source' cover 'til I went to prison.

— Pimp C

“Life is like a prison. To survive it is through self-healing and absolute dignity.”

— Izad

“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?”

— Jalaluddin Rumi

No one doubts that having a criminal record - whether it results in community probation or prison - is a serious handicap.

— Heather Mac Donald

“If I should still be kept in this hole over Christmas, don’t worry about it. I’m not really anxious about it. One…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I've shot films in locations that have seemed haunted. I shot a film in a maximum-security prison in Russia. Part of it…

— Norman Reedus

“there is one similarity between a prison guard and a leader: Both have the final word. When a decision is made, it…

— John Wooden

A lot of dudes can't function too long in mainstream life because they've been indoctrinated into that penal system where that shapes…

— Sadat X

I am not the only one who did not want revenge. Almost all my colleagues in prison did not want revenge, because…

— Nelson Mandela

I went to Rikers one time to do 'Third Watch,' and I remember thinking, 'Wow, this is a scary place.' We were…

— Selenis Leyva

For those interested in learning more about corporations and private individuals profiting from the caging of human beings, I highly recommend the…

— Michelle Alexander

“When rehabilitation works, there is no question that it is the best and most productive use of the correctional system. It stands…

— John E. Douglas

I think today we've gone so far technologically and also just emotionally and psychologically, I mean there's a lot of crime out…

— Johnny Depp

The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur.…

— Kenny Smith

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“When the meat platter was passed to me, I didn't even know what the meat was; usually, you couldn't tell, anyway-but it…

— Malcolm X

“Oh what a good time I had in prison!" he exclaimed afterward. It had almost been like being back in Siberia again.…

— Geir Kjetsaa

Republicans are always saying we should privatize things like schools, prisons, social security - hey, how about we privatize privacy! Because if…

— Bill Maher

“It was a survival thing: he didn't answer back, didn't say anything about job security for prison guards, debate the nature of…

— Neil Gaiman

What's been crucial to 'Hustle's' success is the sense that the gang could survive in prison or on the streets.

— Adrian Lester

I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

— Quentin Tarantino

The second time I went to jail, I was like, 'okay, this is not the move.'

— The Notorious B.I.G

I can do more good outside of prison... This country is worth dying for.

— Edward Snowden

Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are…

— Bob Dylan

When you're in jail and you're just sitting there, you find out who was really there for you and who wasn't.

— Jeremy Stephens

“She didn't realize she was in a prison until she collided with the bars.”

— Joyce Rachelle

“Under a goverment which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison”

— Henry David Thoreau

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

— Dorothy Rowe

Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“your God is the only warden of a prison where the only prisoner is your God.”

— José Saramago

New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?

— Cynthia Ozick

I think coming out, for me, is really about tearing down the prison wall.

— Robert Gant

Too many people are living in a prison that they have themselves manufactured.

— Michael Beckwith

Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape

— Loren Eiseley