Prison Quotes

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Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated. — Elbert Hubbard
Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner. — Henri Matisse
As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to that unhappily small extent… — Simone Weil
It is this refrain that we hear repeated by everyone: you are not at home, this is not a sanatorium, the only exit is by… — Primo Levi
The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any… — Paul Gauguin
The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day. — Eugene V. Debs
If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in… — Eugene V. Debs
A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed. — Eugene V. Debs
In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast stretches yet to… — Eugene V. Debs
The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions. — Eugene V. Debs
The general public knows practically nothing about the prison and appears to be little concerned about how it is managed and how prisoners are treated. — Eugene V. Debs
Some go to prison for stealing, and others for believing that a better system can be provided and maintained than one that makes it necessary… — Eugene V. Debs
All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches… — Edna O'Brien
If artists do see fields blue they are deranged, and should go to an asylum. If they only pretend to see them blue, they are… — Adolf Hitler
The atmosphere [in the school lunchroom] is not quite that of a prison, because the students are permitted to talk quietly, under the frowning scrutiny… — Edgar Friedenberg
My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [cell 54 of Cairo Central Prison] taught me that he who cannot change the… — Anwar Sadat
Two places in this world make it impossible for a man to escape from himself: a battlefield and a prison cell. — Anwar Sadat
I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous. — Natalie Merchant
Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own… — Patrick Macnee
I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress… — Pranab Mukherjee

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