Prison Quotes · Page 33

“I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.”

— Bertrand Russell

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

— Abraham Cowley

“He had become her whole world,a way out of the prison of her own mind.”

— Lynn Matheson

“Making Disciples through the Transforming Power of Jesus Christ in the Spirit of Excellence!”

— Hans Blunk

It was good to get out of prison and home to the family.

— Varg Vikernes

There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.

— Gerald Stern

Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.

— Mohsin Hamid

In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are constantly reminded…

— Marianne Williamson

I'm definitely not going back to Italy willingly. They'll have to catch me and pull me back kicking and screaming into a…

— Amanda Knox

Suspended NFL star Michael Vick told a bankruptcy court on Friday that his time in prison has given him a chance to…

— Seth Meyers

When I played, the owners had the power. The prisoners are running the prison now, not the warden. The warden is strong…

— Julius Erving

My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [cell 54 of Cairo Central Prison] taught me that he who…

— Anwar Sadat

Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Right believing is a light that illuminates the path to freedom out of this prison.

— Joseph Prince

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so…

— Anonymous

A house though otherwise beautiful, yet if it hath no garden belonging to it, is more like a prison than a house.

— William H. Coles

The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional. Anxiety is not a sin; it's an emotion. So…

— Max Lucado

So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St.…

— Aaron Neville

The place resembled a new model prison, or one that had achieved a provisional utopia after principled revolt, or maybe a homeless…

— Sam Lipsyte

It does not matter what you call the gaoler so long as he has the key that will open the door of…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Kai neared his desk again, seeing that the fugitive's profile had been transferred to the screen. His frown deepened. Perhaps not dangerous,…

— Marissa Meyer

Enormous and growing parts of the population are basically superfluous for profit-making purposes. Along with this, the jail population is increasing very…

— Noam Chomsky

“The shades of the prison house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall,…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“Proshka was a man of self-esteem. He considered himself a cut above the rest, and had a degree of personal pride. His…

— Leo Tolstoy

I received more genuine religious stimulation in prison than in the seminary.

— David Dellinger

When you go to prison they forget it's your Constitution, too.

— Jimmy Hoffa

I spent 30 years on Alabama's death row for a crime I did not commit.

— Anthony Ray Hinton

I'm very resourceful. I'd be good in prison. I'd be good in a shipwreck. I'd make a great hostage.

— David Letterman

Only your intelligence can break you free from your ignorance.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in.

— Anonymous

The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

— Walter Raleigh

I watch box sets. I worked my way through 'Breaking Bad' and 'Prison Break.'

— Bojan Krkic

Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.

— May Sarton

I've taught in prison; I've counseled people... I've been arrested; I've been to the psychiatrist.

— John Waters

I have done prison time for 13 years without any conviction.

— Asif Ali Zardari

“I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.”

— William Shakespeare

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

— Epictetus

In truth the prison, unto which we doom Ourselves, no prison is.

— William Wordsworth

“He was the little mouse that I'd trained and fed with crumbs in my prison cell; the mouse that was crucified.”

— Gregory David Roberts

I bet that in prison everyone's FB relationship status is set to "it's complicated".

— Anonymous