Prison Quotes

1427 quotes by 949 authors

Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring. I remember again,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the… — Jean Anouilh
Sometimes people have sympathized with me because long years of my life were spent in jail and in exile. Well, those years ... were a… — Sukarno
I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general. — Angela Davis
I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison.… — John Grisham
Typically, you get a year in prison for making a threat to assassinate the president. — Megyn Kelly
I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it. — Conrad Black
I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown. — Foxy Brown
The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have… — Jack Buck
I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on… — Sam Brownback
I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I… — Duane Chapman
The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death. — Duane Chapman
Yeah, I've gotten a few letters from prison. — Elisha Cuthbert
Man is unique in creation because he has a sense of justice and truth. We spend billions of dollars each year to set up court… — Ray Comfort
I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible. — Ava DuVernay
After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men… — Barbara Deming
Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and thinking about the… — John Ensign
Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize… — Larry Flynt
I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime… — Lisa Gardner
When it comes to locations, I'm one of those crazy authors who has to see it, touch it, taste it, before I trust myself to… — Lisa Gardner

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