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, it’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
Who Wrote These Prison Quotes
949 authors contributed a total of 1,427 Prison Quotes, led by these top contributors: