Our Prison Quotes
- What is [the role of money] in the search for meaning? Is our relationship to it one of the chief factors that keeps us in… — Jacob Needleman
- Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only the… — Piper Kerman
- Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one… — George Bernard Shaw
- Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of our own design.… — Jon Anderson
- The day dawns; the morning star is bright upon the horizon! The iron gate of our prison stands half open. One gallant rush from the… — Frederick Douglass
- It's time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population. — Hillary Clinton
- Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison. — Antonio Porchia
- That's all the freedom we canhope for - the freedom to choose our prison. [...] — Lucy Maud Montgomery
- We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for… — Israel Zangwill