Prison Quotes

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If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison… — Hunter S. Thompson
The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison. — Hunter S. Thompson
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. — Henry David Thoreau
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind. — Gene Tierney
Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and… — Eckhart Tolle
The White House is the finest prison in the world. — Harry S. Truman
Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have… — Yulia Tymoshenko
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff. — Mike Tyson
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well. — Peter Ustinov
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. — Voltaire
Fear follows crime and is its punishment. — Voltaire
We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their… — Lech Walesa
Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined… — Lil Wayne
A mind enclosed in language is in prison. — Simone Weil
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in… — Cornel West
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be. — Oscar Wilde
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break. — Robert Anton Wilson
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn… — Mary Wollstonecraft
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. — Virginia Woolf

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