Prison Quotes

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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society… — Albert Camus
There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top. — Tommy Chong
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the… — Winston Churchill
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. — Eldridge Cleaver
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man. — Johnnie Cochran
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing. — A. R. Ammons
Having gone through what I went through, watching my family be torn to shreds and my children suffer immensely, I can't be the agent of… — Jack Abramoff
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in… — Corazon Aquino
Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate. — Jeffrey Archer
When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul,… — Robert Green Ingersoll
OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard. — Ambrose Bierce
Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse. — George Bernard Shaw
The idea that the United States can't guard its own border is silly. It's a sign that were not serious about this...people who legally shouldn't… — Newt Gingrich
Every time we sign a treaty with another country, the treaty (should) include prisoner transfer provisions.... Under these provisions, the country in which the crimes… — Kathleen Brown
Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison. — John Hardwick
Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service… — Frederic Bastiat
Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held. — Edward McKendree Bounds
God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison. — Thomas Brooks
More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is… — Jonathan Kozol
The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a… — Niccolo Machiavelli

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