Prison Quotes

1427 quotes by 989 authors

Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions. I crawled along… — Robin Wasserman
Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone… — Ian Mckellen
I, Master John Hus, in chains and in prison, now standing on the shore of this present life and expecting on the morrow a dreadful… — Jan Hus
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation. — Robert M. Hutchins
America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality. — Bruce Jackson
Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all… — Bobby Scott
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. — Bobby Scott
Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my… — Kaspar Hauser
With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse… — John Spratt
There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside. — Pat Brown
Why would anyone expect Tyson to come out smarter? He went to prison for four years, not Princeton. — Lou Duva
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at… — Daniel Berrigan
It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they… — Thomas Mellon
The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu… — Janis Karpinski
I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison. — Freddy Fender
Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal. — Jeffrey Archer
You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free rather than put… — Jonah Goldberg
America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation,… — Bill Johnson
Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly lead public demands… — Conrad Black
When I arrived in prison, they locked the prison down that day because the media was all over the place. — Jack Abramoff

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