Prison Quotes · Page 6

A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“You are in your own prison.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The worst prison would be a closed heart.

— Pope John Paul II

Schools resemble the culture of prisons.

— Henry Giroux

“A comfortable prison was still a prison.”

— Salman Rushdie

“Denial is always a prison.”

— Sally MacKenzie

We are all living in cages with the door wide open.

— George Lucas

Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

— James Ussher

The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard.

— George Gilder

Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.

— Paula Cole

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

— Johnnie Cochran

Being on death row has taken so much from me as a human being.

— Anthony Ray Hinton

The main thing I learned in jail was how much I love my kids, that I never want to be away from…

— Ashley Walters

This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are.

— Philip Davies

..living in this life where people having sympathy. going to jail all the time living with no discipline..

— Christopher Williams

Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed.

— Madeleine L'Engle

People coming out of jail need a path back into society: access to a job, a place to live, supportive services. We've…

— London Breed

I think the reality of prison is you don't get anything unless you want it in there. Whatever happens to you in…

— Mike Tyson

“...not with the Depression walking around outside the prison walls like a dangerous criminal, one that couldn't be caged as our charges…

— Stephen King

Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“And I must smile and dance with this man, and say nothing, for he holds the key to the prison my life…

— Victoria Lamb

Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic…

— Billy Graham

For me, it just doesn't make sense that somebody could be out the same day or not have to serve a day…

— Ahmad Balshe

“Send me away to a prison where they keep magicians. So I can perform my magic for those who are in the…

— Ray Buckley

“How the hell can I help him? I'm in a prison. I'm locked in a wilderness. I'll never see the avenue of…

— Todd Young

Despite all of the civil rights gains of the past several decades, when it comes to economic opportunity, African Americans and Latinos…

— Sasha Abramsky

Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a…

— Jodi Picoult

Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean…

— Victor Hugo

I've struggled a lot in my life with feeling like a failure. I lived in a 'prison of perfectionism,' holding myself to…

— Sarah Drew

There is no governor anywhere. You are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. If anybody could go…

— Robert Anton Wilson

School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able…

— Leo Tolstoy

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is…

— Samuel Johnson

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

— Anonymous

Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]

— Irving Stone

“I'm beginning to wish I was back in prison.”

— Anonymous

No jailhouse but your girl in my cell

— Yung Eazy

None of my peers avoided prison. None of 'em.

— Nipsey Hussle

[White House is] the finest prison in the world.

— Barack Obama

Loneliness feels like prison.

— Naz?m Hikmet

I believe in power of speech, and food inside prison

— Popo Santos