Prison Quotes

1427 quotes by 949 authors

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling… — Nhat Hanh
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous. — Jack Herer
It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them. — David Hockney
A thief believes everybody steals. — E. W. Howe
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. — Victor Hugo
And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines… — David Icke
I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking… — James Inhofe
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we… — Eugene Ionesco
Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the… — Muhammad Iqbal
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. — Thomas Jefferson
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told… — Mother Jones
They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose. — Janis Karpinski
There's no doubt I expect to die in prison. — Jack Kevorkian
One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making… — Val Kilmer
I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police… — Suge Knight
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you. — Suge Knight
Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with… — Peter Kropotkin
I don't have to act for work anymore; I can act for passion. That's freeing, but it's also a prison of its own. When you… — Ashton Kutcher
What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer. — Aung San Suu Kyi

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