Prison Quotes · Page 37

For more than 20 years my identity was bonded with those people on death row, I cared about them.

— Nick Yarris

When I was released from prison, I didn't want to leave my house for the first three months.

— Ashley Walters

“You came out of prison incredibly buff or with an addiction to paperback novels.”

— Heather O'Neill

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

— William Glasser

Before I went to prison, there were not really many blockchain products. It was only bitcoin.

— Charlie Shrem

“Exhibition of power can easily put you on the pedestal,but then it is like a prison,it is a lonely place.”

— Anupama Garg

They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.

— Janis Karpinski

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985

— Serj Tankian

There's a small group of music critics in the States who will forgive you anything - jazz, a long prison term, or…

— Andre Previn

Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all…

— Zadie Smith

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration,…

— Israel Zangwill

That's why you need the war on drugs to put all these pot smokers in prison so that the prisons remain full…

— Jesse Ventura

Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it…

— Akbar Ganji

Many things embarrass me, but reading isn't one of them. I'm not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor…

— Tom Rachman

Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people…

— Piper Kerman

Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.

— John Kennedy Toole

Every house was festooned with flowers and with lanterns. On the national day, the whole country went wild with joy, But on…

— Ho Chi Minh

Forgotten tones of love recur to us, and kind glances shine out of the past--oh so bright and clear!--oh so longed after!--because…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Smith shrugged and came over to Cella and Crush. Another shifter, a black bear, waited to lead them out, the security cameras…

— Shelly Laurenston

We live in a country where posting 'Let's riot or something bruv!' on Facebook will get you a couple of years in…

— Frankie Boyle

Go forth! Carry the good tidings to the poor, bind the wounds of the brokenhearted, proclaim freedom to slaves, open the doors…

— Pope Benedict XVI

If the heart is cleansed by the love of Jesus Christ, and if the heart loves Him, one can resist all tortures.…

— Richard Wurmbrand

Just having walked into a prison environment, sat there for two hours, the effect that it had on me. ... I couldn't…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

According to the bible, Heaven is completely perfect and Hell is completely evil. In Heaven, in order to keep everything completely perfect,…

— William Carroll

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.

— Anonymous

Prison officers face enormous pressure. The levels of violence inside our prisons are too high.

— David Lidington

The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.

— Eric Schlosser

Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.

— Scott Lynch

I'm certain prison is pretty rough as it is but imagine if you were a murderer and a foodie!

— Greg Behrendt

I met this guy who said he loved children, then I found out he was on parole for it.

— Monica Piper

As soon as I ended up being incarcerated, I said, you know, this is not the life for me.

— Mark Wahlberg

I spent two months in a jail once. In a Mexican border town.

— Dean Ambrose

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. ~Henry Van Dyke

— Henry Van Dyke

Even behind prison walls I can see the heavy clouds and the blue sky over the horizon

— Nelson Mandela

I believe that pain and suffering can either be a prison or a prism.

— Tim Hansel

Trying to explain the First Step Act in prison reform in a tweet or Facebook post is not easy.

— Brad Parscale

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes

— George Will

All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.

— Barbara Deming

A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky