Prison Quotes

1427 Prison quotes by 949 unique authors

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing. — Antonia Fraser
There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced labor… — Hannah Arendt
If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads.… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor. — Jeremiah Denton
In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do. The black planes… — Kathy Acker
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and… — George Orwell
Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock… — Mark Twain
Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Right believing is a light that illuminates the path to freedom out of this prison. — Joseph Prince
Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder… — Peter Benenson
The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison,… — Peter Benenson
Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the… — Peter Benenson
We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems. — Ruben Hinojosa
Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one… — Victoria Woodhull
A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and by which our… — Victoria Woodhull
Of course I don't want to go to a cocktail party...If I wanted to stand around with a load of people I don't know eating… — Victoria Wood
In prison we are their jailers On trial their judges Persecuted their punishers Dead their conquerors — Unknown Author
The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the… — George Bernard Shaw
Good evening. A President who lied us into a war and, in so doing, needlessly killed 3,584 of our family and friends and neighbors; a… — Keith Olbermann
If I was killed in prison. That would be a blessing right now. — Jeffrey Dahmer
If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert -… — Bruce Chatwin
Body is a home, a prison and a grave. — James Runcie
You feel you are hedged in; you dream of escape; but beware of mirages. Do not run or fly away in order to get free:… — Unknown Author
I feel like somebody who just got out of prison after 40 years for something she didn't do, like I got pardoned by the governor.… — Jennifer Finney Boylan
The cruelest prison of all is the prison of the mind. — Piri Thomas

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