Prison Quotes

1427 Prison quotes by 949 unique authors

I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me… — Janis Karpinski
He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium. — John Milton
But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be… — George Ripley
I thought a time would come when people would rout me out of Ars with sticks, when the Bishop would suspend me, and I should… — John Vianney
That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing. — Antonia Fraser
There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced labor… — Hannah Arendt
If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads.… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor. — Jeremiah Denton
In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do. The black planes… — Kathy Acker
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and… — George Orwell
Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock… — Mark Twain
Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Right believing is a light that illuminates the path to freedom out of this prison. — Joseph Prince
Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder… — Peter Benenson
The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison,… — Peter Benenson
Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the… — Peter Benenson
We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems. — Ruben Hinojosa
Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one… — Victoria Woodhull
A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and by which our… — Victoria Woodhull

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