Prison Quotes

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"The only reason some of us are not exiled or thrown into prison is simply because we do not preach as fervently and as sternly… — Oliver B. Greene
Dayodhuam: I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Humility does not live in the prison of illusion that says that this world is a dark and terrible place. Those perceptions are phantoms; everything… — Frederick Lenz
Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is mined deep in the earth by poor men who then give it to… — Mike Harding
I don't want to paint myself as some kind of saint - that would be laughable - but I do think I've been able over… — Robert Draper
Prison is, simply put, the bottom rung of the welfare ladder. — Stephen Reid
It is in prison ... that one becomes a real revolutionary. — Vladimir Lenin
Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars. — Carrie P. Meek
There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a decade before the… — Michelle Alexander
Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions — Hillary Clinton
I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru. — Daniel Alarcon
However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I donâ€™t mean fight with the power of our… — Cressida Cowell
Some European countries insist on saying that during World War II, Hitler burned millions of Jews and put them in concentration camps. Any historian, commentator… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
This souls'prison we call England. — George Bernard Shaw
In truth the prison, unto which we doom Ourselves, no prison is. — William Wordsworth
Ah, fortune and fame shall follow me ... and I shall dwell in the world of the chosen for a few moments of fleeting ecstasy;… — Hunter S. Thompson
Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is… — C.S. Lewis
I could never fear a God who kept a hell prison-house. No, not though he flung me there because I refused. There is a power… — James Anthony Froude
Now, to a single-minded man, who is either brave enough or reckless enough to surrender himself wholly to one idea, and look neither right nor… — James Anthony Froude
Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death. — Charles Caleb Colton

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