Prison Quotes

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This is illegal. If you don't let me out, you'll be arrested. I swear you will. You'll go to prison and be forced to have… — Gena Showalter
You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison… — Anthony de Mello
Why can't I solve this problem by killing someone? she though petulantly, then comforted herself with the mantra that had kept her going in prison:… — Eoin Colfer
My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990 and he hasn't reoffended. I think he's… — Ricky Gervais
When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness… — Anthony Venn-Brown
Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we… — Gregory David Roberts
Wow. Clearly, I need to find myself an ex-con. Since prison is probably the only place in this city I havenâ€™t looked for Mr. Right… — Julie James
At one oâ€™clock, the ever-logical Right-Eye Grand Steward woke up to discover that during his sleep his left-eyed counterpart had executed three of his advisors… — Frances Hardinge
Bridget did the only thing she could do in this situation that wouldn't end with her doing a life stint in prison. She flipped the… — J. Lynn
One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars. — David Mitchell
I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough… — Albert Camus
Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion — Dan Simmons
There is a difference between the inmates of your criminal prisons and the inmates of your cultural prison: The former understand that the distribution of… — Daniel Quinn
Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us in the cultures… — Jane Goodall
Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours… — Mumia Abu-Jamal
For many of us, the hospital was as much a refuge as it was a prison. Though we were cut off from the world and… — Susanna Kaysen
Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not… — B R Ambedkar
That's all the freedom we canhope for - the freedom to choose our prison. [...] — Lucy Maud Montgomery
He had wanted so hard to Escape, to find the stars. And all he had found was a new prison. — Catherine Fisher
I guess Satan was the first superhero [...] In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners being held… — Joe Hill

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