Prison Quotes

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It's best that I hide my real personality. I cannot tell you what it is because I don't want to go to prison. — Gianfranco Zola
Although prison officials have long battled illegal cellphones, smartphones have changed the game. With Internet access, a prisoner can call up phone directories, maps and… — Kim Severson
I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison… — Yves Klein
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals… — Jimmy Hoffa
According to the bible, Heaven is completely perfect and Hell is completely evil. In Heaven, in order to keep everything completely perfect, everyone in it… — William Carroll
I have been asked what I mean by my word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone… — Karl G. Maeser
You always hold the key of repentance to unlock the prison door. If they throw the word diversity at you, grab hold of it and… — Boyd K. Packer
This is a darker Lex too, because he's been in prison and he wants revenge. He's not playing around. — Bryan Singer
If life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows of our dreams,… — Fernando Pessoa
He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. — Thomas Hobbes
When I was in prison, I read an article - don't be shocked when I say I was in prison. You're still in prison. That's… — Malcolm X
You must forgive the people who hurt you so you can get out of prison. You'll never be free until you do. Let go of… — Joel Osteen
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison. — Henri Frederic Amiel
You can at least let sick people have marijuana because it's helpful. But the compassionate conservatives say, well we can't do this, we're going to… — Ron Paul
There was always news coming back to the quarter about someone who had been killed or sent to prison for killing someone else: Snowball, stabbed… — Ulysses S. Grant
This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were… — Rudolf Hoss
Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond the social stereotypes… — Robert D. Hare
If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in… — Belle Boyd
You have opened up the prison gates of my womanhood. And all the passion that was unsatisfied in for me so many years, leaped into… — Emma Goldman
The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his country when he… — Alexander Berkman

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