Prison Quotes

1427 quotes by 977 authors

we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have to make sure… — Amartya Sen
A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it. — Charles Lamb
Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Concentrated power can be always wielded in the interest of the few and at the expense of the many. Government in its last analysis is… — Lucy Parsons
I'm a golfaholic, no question about that. Counseling wouldn't help me. They'd have to put me in prison, and then I'd talk the warden into… — Lee Trevino
A society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons. — Rick Steves
So long as there are poor, - I am poor, - So long as there are prisons, - I am a prisoner, - So long… — Fulton J. Sheen
The main point in our report was to recommend decriminalization...because of the way laws are applied, which have not worked. We have applied them for… — Kofi Annan
Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping. — Steve Buscemi
I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all… — John McCain
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were… — George MacDonald
The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison. — Charles Spurgeon
I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I may not break… — Joseph Hall
The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution. — Walter Raleigh
Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What… — Cesare Pavese
Why do people hanker for the home? - security, safety. But in the name of security and safety, they don't make homes, they make prisons… — Rajneesh
This mind is a prison. It cannot find any freedom anywhere. It must die before freedom comes to you. But we have taken the mind… — Rajneesh
Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer. — Dorothy Rowe

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