Prison Quotes
1427 quotes by 989 authors
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And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses -…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration - which have been raining down by…
— Peter Kropotkin
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Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's... But how does the great apostle spend his time in prison?... We read of no…
— William Gurnall
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And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide…
— William Gurnall
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There have been times when I could have succumbed to some form of bribe, or could have had my way by offering one. But ever…
— Richard Branson
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There's going to be a new code on Parliament Hill: bend the rules, you will be punished; break the law, you will be charged; abuse…
— Stephen Harper
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A ‘liberal paradise’ would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive health care, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free…
— Joe Arpaio
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If you think God has promised this world will be a five-star hotel, you will be miserable as you live through the normal struggles of…
— Kevin DeYoung
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When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it it was a very spiritual time for me.
— Henrique Capriles Radonski
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Fear is a self imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move against it with…
— Rick Warren
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Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth
— Mumia Abu-Jamal
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Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruction.…
— Christa Wolf
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In Santiago, the capital of the kingdom of Chile, at the moment of the great earthquake of 1647 in which many thousands lost their lives,…
— Heinrich von Kleist
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Now that Mandela has been released from prison we can all admit what has been apparent, that he is not a Tembu tribesman, in fact…
— Auberon Waugh
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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
— Al Franken
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Your fears are a kind of prison that confines you within a limited range of action. The less you fear, the more power you will…
— Curtis Jackson
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Danbury wasnt a prison, it was a crime school. I went in with a Bachelor of marijuana, came out with a Doctorate of cocaine.
— George Jung
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The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with…
— Jane Goodall
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