Prison Quotes · Page 38

[We need] to nurture the entrepreneurial spirit and the tremendous untapped potential in our prisons.

— Jeff Smith

People are calling on me to put corrupt people into prison. Where do you start?

— Haider al-Abadi

As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

— John Waters

“There is more than one sort of prison, Captain," Chirrut said. "I sense that you carry yours wherever you go.”

— Alexander Freed

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

— Eldridge Cleaver

“The cemetery is where a young hustla go to retire, and prison is where he goes to grow old.”

— Nikki Turner

“I'd rather be in prison in California than free anywhere else.”

— Inez Haynes Irwin

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual…

— Michel Foucault

“The tradition that refuses to entertain doubt, or remains impervious to new thoughts and ideas, becomes a prison rather than a sustaining…

— Manju Kapur

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. Minds innocent and quiet take that for a hermitage: If…

— Richard Lovelace

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot…

— Samuel Johnson

Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do,…

— J. B. Pritzker

Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.

— Sufjan Stevens

The magistrate who originally sentenced Eric Cantona to prison said that millions of young people saw him as a role model and…

— Harry Enfield

“They can't give you all that, Mr Jimson,' said Walter, who was upset. 'It wouldn't be right. What would they give you…

— Joyce Cary

The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times.…

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

The war on drugs causes other supplemental crimes to take place because of the original illegality of it. But then again, that's…

— Jesse Ventura

I think, at some level, we see young people all over the country mobilizing around different issues, in which they're doing something…

— Henry Giroux

When we mourn those who die young – those who have been robbed of time – we weep for lost joys. We…

— Josephine Hart

“Finally, my watchers had to fess up. In embarrassed and genuinely polite tones, they said they had no other choice but to…

— Rudolph Herzog

For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference…

— Elie Wiesel

One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the…

— Angela Davis

I don't belong to a church or political party or a group of any kind. I feel that Amnesty International is the…

— Sting

God keepe me from foure houses, an Vsurers, a Taverne, a Spittle, and a Prison.

— George Herbert

What was really horrifying about jail is that it really isn't horrifying. You adjust very easily.

— Roberta Victor

Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.

— Ovid

Get out and do something, it isn't your room that's a prison, it's yourself.

— Anonymous

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

— William Penn

I've ended up in prison a number of times, once in Cambodia, once in Cuba - for hours rather than days.

— Emily Maitlis

There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason.

— Alice Walker

In Russia one can be as pure as can be and still lose everything in a flash and end up in prison.

— Vladimir Sorokin

“Watch out for men who love something more than themselves or you. Their passion can be your prison.”

— Gwendolyn Heasley

Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.

— John Grisham

“I refuse to stay a prisoner to my body. I am going to free myself.”

— Leigh Hershkovich

I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.

— Angela Davis

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

— Beck

“You can endure any sort of prison if you can apprehend a window in the dark.”

— Gregory Maguire

I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.

— Roberto Bolano

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

— Ambrose Bierce