Prison Quotes

1427 Prison quotes by 949 unique authors

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is… — John Milton
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with… — Phil Ochs
I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the… — Lysander Spooner
Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons,… — Walter E. Williams
Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of capital punishment, prison… — Peter Kropotkin
There is no governor anywhere. You are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. If anybody could go into dhyana at… — Robert Anton Wilson
Very close by the CMS shops, hidden about a quarter mile away in the woods, was the prison's rifle range. Correctional officers could spend quality… — Piper Kerman
If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time. — Steven Bochco
One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write… — Jeffrey Archer
By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever… — Cynthia Payne
Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ? — Michel Foucault
The soul is the prison of the body. — Michel Foucault
Growth is a funny sort of concept. For example, our GNP increases every time we build a prison. Well, okay, itâ€™s growth in a sense... — Noam Chomsky
We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think of 'success' as synonymous with, or at least dependent upon, 'schooling,' but historically… — John Taylor Gatto
Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to… — Zadie Smith
Used books are the sluts of the literary world. Passed around from person to person, spreading their pages for anyone, getting cheaper and cheaper until… — Stephen Colbert
The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort… — Arthur Koestler
Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build — Talib Kweli
Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love. — Leonardo da Vinci

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