Prison Quotes · Page 44

Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

A mans spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities

— Jeremy Aldana

Death row saved my life. It taught me everything is a luxury to be treasured.

— Nick Yarris

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

— Jack Henry Abbott

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.

— Corrie Ten Boom

“[Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.”

— Stephen King

Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.

— Henri Matisse

India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“HAVING NEVER taken a decent holiday before, I decided on a trip to Thailand, booked a flight and flew out the following…

— Simon Palmer

Well, the first two days in prison, I had to go through what life is like when you've been smoking weed for…

— Tupac Shakur

I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element,…

— Elizabeth Strout

Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because…

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

The Human Rights Convention was written by Conservatives in the aftermath of the Second World War. It was designed to combat the…

— Chris Grayling

There is always something to be happy about if we look for it: ‘Two men looked through prison bars, The one saw…

— Amy Carmichael

If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated…

— Jean Vanier

“You will find that most prisons are forged in someone’s own mind. And they invariably possess the key to their release if…

— Jeff Wheeler

“Today the combat takes a different shape; instead of wishing to put man in a prison, woman endeavors to escape from one;…

— Ira Levin

The way to freedom is through service to others. The way to happiness is through meditation and being in tune with God...…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to…

— Viktor E. Frankl

When we first started to write our first movie, 'You Are Going To Prison,' we wanted it to be crazy and unique,…

— Robert Ben Garant

Yet there were times when he did love her with all the kindness she demanded, and how was she to know what…

— Pearl S. Buck

I have no personal knowledge of, or experience with, paramilitary hate groups, or heart transplantation, or escapees from maximum security prisons, or…

— Sandra Brown

I will build the wall and I will impose tough mandatory minimum - remember this - tough mandatory minimum prison sentences for…

— Donald Trump

How come life in prison doesn't mean life? Until it does, we're not ready to do away with the death penalty. Stop…

— Jesse Ventura

As much as I didn't want to go to jail I had to accept it. It was my own doing.

— Joey Barton

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

— Alberto Manguel

“In great ceremony they entered the prison. They were never to be seen again.”

— Catherine Fisher

“Prison abolition is more than a politic, it’s a daily practice.”

— Shira Hassan

To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.

— Margaret Atwood

When I got to jail, it was a blessing in disguise because it made me reevaluate and check who I am as…

— Troy Deeney

We send young white boys to the Army. We're sending young black boys to the prisons.

— Talib Kweli

After my conviction, I was devastated. I had never believed that I would be convicted.

— Amanda Knox

“If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be punishment as well as the prison.”

— Anonymous

Negative thoughts are the nails that build a prison of failure.

— Jon Gordon

The greatest prison people live in,is the fear of what people think.

— Stankyrich

When we put someone in our jail cell of hatred, we are stuck guarding the door.

— Max Lucado

I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.

— Daniel Alarcon

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison.

— Daniel Tosh

Our system never treated the failure of prison as a reason not to try more prison.

— James Forman, Jr

Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?

— Anonymous