Prison Quotes
1427 quotes by 989 authors
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Marriage can either be a classroom where people become wiser and better, or a prison where people become resentful; and bitter.
— David Jeremiah
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The BIBLE - banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit…
— Charles Colson
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I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
— Charles Colson
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Today I live on an island, in a house that is sad, hard, severe, that I built for myself, solitary on a sheer rock over…
— Curzio Malaparte
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I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.
— Jack Layton
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I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty. I could…
— Gordon Parks
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Fear never wrote a symphony or poem, negotiated a peace treaty, or cured a disease. Fear never pulled a family out of poverty or a…
— Max Lucado
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I Don't Want To Live Long. I Would Rather Get The Death Penalty Than Spend The Rest Of My Life In Prison
— Theodore Kaczynski
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When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?
— Jim Bakker
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To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my…
— Jim Bakker
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Id go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didnt have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but…
— Amanda Beard
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Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up…
— Robert Smithson
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We talk about civilization as though it's a static state. There are no civilized people yet, it's a process that's constantly going on... As long…
— Jacque Fresco
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In our society, we move people out of government. It's all operated by machines, meaning – not the people, just the products: the farming, the…
— Jacque Fresco
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As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that will…
— Jacque Fresco
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Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps,…
— Philip Kaufman
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During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem.
— Michael Vick
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I mean, I was just one of the ones who got exposed, and because of the position I was in, where I was in my…
— Michael Vick
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I miss dogs, man. I always had a family pet, always had a dog growing up. It was almost equivalent to the prison sentence, having…
— Michael Vick
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The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.
— Eduardo Galeano
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