Prison Quotes

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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men. — George Bernard Shaw
New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there,… — Henry Miller
You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you… — Hermann Hesse
Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Scientists are the enemies of tradition , and tradition own all the prisons. - Victor Vigny — Eoin Colfer
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison,… — George Bernard Shaw
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if… — Pablo Picasso
Poetry and prison have always been neighbors. — Roberto Bolano
The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the… — Winston Churchill
We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words, when in truth… — Mervyn Peake
They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being… — C.S. Lewis
The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers. — Eric Schlosser
It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly terrible and disgusting… — Anthony Bourdain
The worst prison would be a closed heart. — Pope John Paul II
I am a king's daughter, And if I cared to care, The moon that has no mistress Would flutter in my hair. No one dares… — Peter S. Beagle
All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day. -Fitz… — Robin Hobb
It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man's body… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough?' Is my veil in place?' Can my… — Marjane Satrapi
I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.' Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite… — Emma Goldman
The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is… — Daniel Quinn

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