Prison Quotes

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Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy. — William Wordsworth
One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense… — Dorothy Day
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall. — Denis Healey
I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in the mud of… — Malcolm X
The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy. Our thoughts become shackled, our… — Warren W. Wiersbe
There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference, a difference of life… — Elie Wiesel
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for… — Israel Zangwill
The Americans make associations to give entertainment, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries to the antipodes;… — Alexis de Tocqueville
It was at home I learned the little I know. Schools always appeared to me like a prison, and never could I make up my… — Claude Monet
The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing "God Bless America." No, no, no,… — Jeremiah Wright
Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself. — Tony Benn
In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, from the prison of past conditioning. Uncertainty is the fertile ground… — Deepak Chopra
A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves… — Albert Einstein
Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. — Henry Van Dyke
And I just hope that I'm forgiven for carin bout how they livin and loanin a little money and keepin em outta prison I aint… — Drake
When you are sharing your joy, you don't create a prison for anybody - you simply give. You donÂ´t even expect gratitude or thankfulness, because… — Rajneesh
Well, the first two days in prison, I had to go through what life is like when you've been smoking weed for as long as… — Tupac Shakur
The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems from one basic… — Eugene Jarecki
Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating. — Sufjan Stevens
The crisis of democracy in the West is not the result of falling in love with another system. In Europe and America people who are… — Ivan Krastev

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