Prison Quotes

1427 Prison quotes by 949 unique authors

We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We… — James Kavanaugh
Why, when God's world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places? — Unknown Author
If you meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your… — Ram Dass
Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment. — Nelson Mandela
Let dissolution come when it will, it can do the Christian no harm, for it will be but a passage out of a prison into… — John Bunyan
When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for… — Angela Davis
Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity without any necessary… — Arthur Schopenhauer
To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food,… — George Orwell
It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent. — Stephen Breyer
This same economic system, based on short-term growth and endless profits is also the reason for pretty much everything else that is lousy in our… — Naomi Klein
O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how much one can… — Walt Whitman
Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison? — John Donne
Our current prison state has the dual effect of getting rid of a superfluous population of basically unskilled workers (with a close race-class correlation), and… — Noam Chomsky
The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into… — Billy Sunday
I think the reality of prison is you don't get anything unless you want it in there. Whatever happens to you in prison, this is… — Mike Tyson
Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people leave prison more… — Piper Kerman
Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal tennis prison. — P.J. O'Rourke
There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jurors realize that instead of having to make that terrible decision (voting for the death penalty), they can vote to put someone in prison and… — Robert Falcon Scott
You've got to be willing to look at a guy's face and say I will kill you if I have to. You've got to be… — Bernard Hopkins
Smokey Wilson was like my Gandhi. If I had run into somebody else in prison, with a different set of values, the world might have… — Bernard Hopkins
Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme… — Vincent Van Gogh
The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you… — Barbara Brown Taylor
I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I… — Fernando Flores

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