Prison Quotes

1427 quotes by 949 authors

The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw… — Henry David Thoreau
My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love.… — Oscar Wilde
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer. — Brendan Behan
A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner. — Mahatma Gandhi
If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands permanently behind your… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times! — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted… — Ethel Smyth
Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom? — Cynthia Ozick
Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim. — Oscar Wilde
Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a room with doors open and… — Gloria Steinem
Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round about 1894. With… — Stephen Fry
Prison has taught me that there is a part of you that no-one can ever take from you, and that is your heart. — Babar Ahmad
Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and… — Robert Green Ingersoll
A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised. — Neal Shusterman
Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than… — Aldous Huxley
There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons. — Benjamin Franklin

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