Prison Quotes

1427 quotes by 977 authors

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government… — Chris Patten
He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the… — Carly Simon
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have… — Laurence Housman
But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education. — Jeffrey Archer
I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this… — Ron Reagan
I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison. — Jeffrey Archer
Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows? — Jack Kevorkian
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison. — Craig L. Thomas
That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he did, which was… — Ishmael Reed
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would… — Nellie Bly
Today begins a new saga in my life which I expect to strengthen me and allow me time for reflection... I plan to write music… — Lil Kim
We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as "nonparty," in prison. — Vladimir Lenin
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration. — Barry McCaffrey
The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there. — Oscar Wilde
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky. — Oscar Wilde
Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison. — Edwin Arnold
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away. — Barbara Deming
Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout. — Tom Hayden
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously. — Mills Lane

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