Prison Quotes

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An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls-even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls-without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell. — Pearl S. Buck
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster. — Suge Knight
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse. — Valentino Rossi
Unless your freedom turns into a creative realization, you will feel sad. Because you will see that you are free-your chains are broken, and you… — Rajneesh
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking… — Elizabeth Drew
You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall and riddle it… — Sean O'Casey
Seriously, in 2008 we elected a community organizer, state senator, college instructor first term senator over a guy who spent five years in a Vietnamese… — Jonah Goldberg
Identity is a concept of our age that should be used very carefully. All types of identities, ethnic, national, religious, sexual or whatever else, can… — Murathan Mungan
When sex becomes conscious it is love, it is no longer lust. Love brings freedom, and lust simply creates prisons for you. — Rajneesh
Too many people are living in a prison that they have themselves manufactured. — Michael Beckwith
Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner to be released,… — Gautama Buddha
I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me to its savage fancies, I… — Eric G. Wilson
I remember my emotions the day we watched Nelson Mandela walk out of prison Writing & literature in South Africa during the anti-apartheid years, became… — Achmat Dangor
The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity. — Leonard Ravenhill
I love to eat. That's why I got so fat; I love to eat. If I don't walk away from a meal hurting, I didn't… — Greg Behrendt
Not to sound cynical, but all you ever learn in prison is how to be a better criminal. — Ras Kass
We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude… — Jason Whitlock
The greatest enemy of mankind is his ignorance of the inherent money power in all of us. When the realization of this comes to man,… — E.C. Riegel
Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it. — Joyce Cary
Prison officials have been more concerned about sparing the sensitivities of executioners and witnesses than protecting the condemned prisoner from pain. They are more concerned… — Jamie Fellner

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