Prison Quotes · Page 40

Being in jail is difficult too because it's like being in a graveyard, you can't do much.

— Benazir Bhutto

The prison system in Norway is fairly civilized, by world standards, and so are the prisoners and the guards.

— Varg Vikernes

When I was in prison, a lot of my friends blew me away. But Stephen Fry wrote to me. It was very…

— Boy George

“Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.”

— Douglas Hurd

I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.

— Natalie Merchant

Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.

— John Grisham

Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.

— Anonymous

You wake up one day and you realize that all these years have gone by and I have this mortgage and I…

— Lynn Shelton

“Nothing is worse in prison than the consciousness of one's innocenc; it prevents acclimatizatin and undermines one's morale...”

— Arthur Koestler

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful,…

— Muhammad Iqbal

I got caught back up in the underworld because the upperworld really doesn't have a place for people with criminal histories.

— Susan Burton

For me, it was the Army or prison. I wanted to make something of myself. The Army gave me that determination, the…

— Nigel Benn

Restoring a person's ability to achieve success when they leave the prison walls promotes public safety, builds our economy and, most importantly,…

— Sally Yates

“You think that’s what Mouse wants? You in jail? He’s not the pile of ashes we’re going to put in the ground.…

— Debra Anastasia

“Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Going into any prison is deeply confusing if you know anything about the racial demographics of America. The extreme overrepresentation of people…

— Bryan Stevenson

Everywhere - all over Africa and South America - you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people…

— J. G. Ballard

You can't escape from a prison until you recognize you are in one. People who have chosen to live within the limits…

— Bob Proctor

“But those right above or right below the sharp numerical threshold had virtually identical criminal histories and backgrounds. This one measly point,…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“The opposite of certainty in life is called freedom. If you want to be free, you must be willing to advance your…

— Richie Norton

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that…

— George Bernard Shaw

The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of…

— John O'Donohue

The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all…

— George Orwell

The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary.

— Spiro T. Agnew

“Rejoice that you are in prison. Here you can think of your soul.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The best kind of prisoner is one who doesn’t even know he’s in prison.”

— Pittacus Lore

“He offered her power, money, status... a giant prison, all in exchange for only...her soul.”

— Jamie Weise

If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.

— Steven Bochco

“It's a shithole but at least I can get a decent brew.' How very British, I thought to myself.”

— Kerry Daynes

The Jello has set the sun has risen today is the day we get out of prison

— Anonymous

A jail is just like a nutshell with a worm in it, the worm will always get out.

— John Dillinger

The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.

— Thomas Watson

I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my…

— Christopher Love

In Russia, we have a long tradition of compassion for people who have been put into labor camps or prison.

— Lyudmila Alexeyeva

Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.

— Robert D. Hare

I've got one younger brother who can do prison like his breakfast, but I'm not built for it.

— Tricky

I know from experience it's very hard to get access to a prison to take pictures.

— David Allee

Attica. The name itself has long signified resistance to prison abuse and state violence.

— James Forman, Jr

“Her mind is a prison she desperately tries to break out of”

— Henning Thiel