Prison Quotes · Page 34

“You're still in prison if you do nothing better in freedom.”

— Toba Beta

Most people who work in prison earn money through contraband.

— Malcolm X

I'm a big fan of 'Prison Break' - I've watched it eight times.

— Virgil van Dijk

I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.

— Foxy Brown

Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.

— M. John Harrison

Living a good life may keep you out of jail, but it cannot keep you out of hell.

— Tim Kimmel

Before my first novel, I was dating a woman who later went to prison for bashing a guy with a hammer.

— Gary Shteyngart

“That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“Prison is a society cultivating psychological repression. Deceptive, the subservient appearance of its camouflage a rage boiling just beneath the surface.”

— Dwight E. Abbott

Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up.

— David Foster

“We have been spending far more for prison institutions than for higher education in the last 20 years. What does that say…

— Christopher Zoukis

One of the things I love about 'Orange' is I think we bring to light a lot of topics that, particularly in…

— Adrienne C. Moore

A lot of the best of what's come from working on 'Orange Is the New Black' is working with the Women's Prison…

— Madeline Brewer

Whoever wishes to meet Jesus must meet him in places where brothers and sisters of Jesus are hungry, thirsty, naked, unwanted, sick…

— Richard Wurmbrand

I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for…

— Jack Carroll

I feel that I have many real students whom I have not met. Many are in cloisters and they never get out.…

— Bell Hooks

I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my…

— George Papandreou

Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons…

— George Orwell

The idea that an actress - mostly lauded for her performances in more than a dozen films - somehow represents a threat…

— Nazanin Boniadi

There is more to the culture of cruelty than simply ethically challenged policies that benefit the rich and punish the poor, particularly…

— Henry Giroux

I'm one of those gay people who's constantly reminded of how fortunate I am to live now and not to be Ennis…

— Dan Savage

Quite a few of The Rolling Stones records have had a great honesty about them. In fact, I would put them side-by-side…

— Henry Mancini

I was a kid who was born and raised on Johnny Cash. My father played 'At Folsom Prison' constantly. Cash was the…

— David Means

“Each night I am nailed into place and forget who I am. Daddy? That's another kind of prison. It's not the prince…

— Anne Sexton

God uses prisons to train people for future roles of leadership or martyrdom.

— Charles Colson

“Don't tear me from one prison, only to damn me to another.”

— Monica Sanz

As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.

— Jacque Fresco

People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.

— Laura Prepon

In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.

— Jonathan Kozol

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.

— Abraham Polonsky

“The world is a prison for the believer and paradise for a non-believer.”

— Prophet Muhammad SAW

I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in You.

— Rumi

“On the cool stone floor of their prison, Samheed and Lani huddled together to try to sleep.”

— Lisa McMann

'The greatest prison that people live in is the FEAR of what other people think of THEM!

— Andrew Guzaldo

I'm eternally grateful to the penal system in California for saving my life.

— Frank Morgan

Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.

— Anonymous

“All corners else o' th' earth Let liberty make use of- space enough Have I in such a prison.”

— Shakespeare's Globe

“When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says.”

— Anna Funder

The prison psychiatrist asked me if I thought sex was dirty. I told him only when it's done right.

— Woody Allen