Prison Quotes

1427 quotes by 977 authors

GOD Has Planted in Your Heart [ ] The Desire To Search For HIM. Do Not Look At Your Weaknesses But Focus on The Search.… — Unknown Author
It appears that the murder rate inside prisons is ten times higher than that outside prisons. It must be due to all those Kalashnikov rifles… — Jeff Cooper
Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades — Marc Lamont Hill
The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor? — John Waters
The victim of mind-manipulati on does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes… — Aldous Huxley
One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand. — Unknown Author
It hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the worldâ€™s… — Noam Chomsky
The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life. — Adam Gopnik
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems… — Angela Davis
I had prepared myself for prison and torture as a soldier in peacetime prepares for the hardships of war. I had studied the lives of… — Richard Wurmbrand
When Allah granted Prophet Yoosuf (`alayhis-Salaam) physical beauty it caused him to be locked up in the prison; but when Allah granted him knowledge (when… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
There is no captive in a worse state than the one who is captivated by his worst enemy (Shaytan) and there is no prison which… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence --… — Lewis H. Lapham
I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance between the work imagined and the… — Lewis H. Lapham
By disobeying god, we escape from his totalitarian prison where you cannot ask any questions, where you must never question authority. We become our human… — Ann Druyan
I think the death penalty's easier than life in prison, — Pamela Smart
Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don't think very much about… — Frank Abagnale
A golf course is for golf. A tennis court is for tennis. A prison camp is for escaping. — Pierre Fresnay
People tend to consider beig vulnerable a bad thing. It's not. Vulnerability reminds us that we're human. It keeps us open to giving and receiving… — Jodee Blanco

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