Prison Quotes
1427 quotes by 949 authors
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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
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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
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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
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Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Scientists are the enemies of tradition , and tradition own all the prisons. - Victor Vigny
— Eoin Colfer
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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
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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
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
— Roberto Bolano
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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
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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
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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
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The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.
— Eric Schlosser
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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
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The worst prison would be a closed heart.
— Pope John Paul II
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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