Prison Quotes

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The world's 'freeest' country has the highest number in prison. — Arundhati Roy
To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison. — Robert Burchfield
One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every way: economically, socially,… — Daniel Ortega
I have committed myself to joy. I have come to realize that those who make space for joy, those who prefer nothing to joy, those… — Richard Rohr
If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison. — Chaka Khan
An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the… — Bronislaw Malinowski
You will never be completely free from risk, if you're free. The only time you can be free from risk is when you're in prison. — Edward Snowden
Love is the only doorway from the prison of ourselves. — Peter Shaffer
I'm going to do the time and I am going to do it the right way — Paris Hilton
Truth is a pursuit, it's a quest. And proof is certainly in the pudding in this particular instance, because the film, and the evidence accumulated… — Errol Morris
I don't think anyone is free — Graham Sutherland
. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and… — Tom McCall
I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and… — Pitbull
I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline, the sensations,… — Jawaharlal Nehru
Of course nothing is ever done about a [presidential] commission report, except, they say, once a man at the state prison for the criminally insane… — Will Rogers
Calisto, a companion of Ignatius, and who on recovering from a severe illness had heard of the imprisonment of Ignatius, hastened from Segnovia, where he… — Ignatius Loyola
Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Parades should be classed as a Nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. They stop more work, inconvenience more people, stop… — Will Rogers
Most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some… — Matthew Arnold
You have a wonderful organization. I understand you have ten thousand here. And if you count the ones in the various federal prisons, it brings… — Will Rogers

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