Prison Quotes · Page 41

Obesity is a prison; in the US we spend more to treat type 2 diabetes each year than is spent on education.

— Paul Zane Pilzer

It was hard to play the drums at all when I got out of prison.

— Varg Vikernes

I have been shown in darkness, light [and] have learned that, even in prison, one can be free,

— Kayla Mueller

When you're trans, it feels like you are being born in prison.

— Rebecca Root

Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain.

— Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle

Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.

— Neil Peart

“Being curious in Russia has proven fatal; being curious in China can land you in prison. But”

— Brian Grazer

“being nothing more than a prison. As Todd slowed the car, he said, “It looks like one of those”

— John Grisham

“You undergo your own incarceration. You may witness your demise piece by piece. You may be one kind of fool who never…

— Louise Erdrich

For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all…

— Anonymous

“prisoners come across to us. They seem nervous and fearful, though most of them are big fellows with beards—they look like meek,…

— Erich Maria Remarque

At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any…

— Rosa Parks

Children of those who have been incarcerated are five times more likely to go to prison than children of parents who have…

— Sam Brownback

“There is a prison,” Alfred began grimly, “in a more ancient part of the world. A pit where men are thrown to…

— Greg Cox

When I was in prison, I read an article - don't be shocked when I say I was in prison. You're still…

— Malcolm X

Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Even though there are no physical shackles, wrong believing causes its inmates to behave as…

— Joseph Prince

All the children in the world, when they go to school, have the right to study in their mother tongue. But we…

— Hassan Blasim

Humanity is at a fork in the road and we can no longer stand there staring at the map pondering which direction…

— David Icke

Oh, the inmates and the prisoners I found they were my kind And it was there inside the bars I found my…

— Bob Dylan

“With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us.…

— John Steinbeck

I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I care even more for your freedom. Too many have died since I went to…

— Nelson Mandela

Shouldn't one of the goals of prison be getting as many of the inmates as possible back out into the world to…

— W. Kamau Bell

“If something ruins my reputation in college and I get sent to jail or prison, I need to find a way to…

— Keith J. Beasley

“He said it was as if Tommy had produced a key which fit a cage in the back of his mind, a…

— Stephen King

Many of us are in are in our own prisons that aren't made of iron bars.

— Hill Harper

When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past,

— Fernando Flores

Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.

— Joseph Brodsky

A prisoner unaware is the kind of prisoner most vulnerable to her captors, the easiest prey there is.

— Beth Moore

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing

— Voltaire

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

— W. C. Fields

Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.

— Johnny Cash

I know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence.

— John McCain

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

— Ho Chi Minh

A freed mind and a venturous spirit will pick the lock upon the doorway of your own prison

— Anonymous

My worst memory is living through the 1989 riot in Huntingdon Prison.

— Nick Yarris

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

— Anonymous

“Put a petty criminal in maximum security prison and he'll come out knowing how to rape and pillage.”

— Michelle Hodkin

That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone.

— Jayson Williams

“I am a waning bird encased in a glass sphere; I cannot see my prison, and my cries no one can hear.”

— Craig Froman

I would like to say prison life at its very best and worst infinitely sucks.

— Leonard Peltier