Prison Quotes

1427 Prison quotes by 949 unique authors

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing. — A. R. Ammons
Having gone through what I went through, watching my family be torn to shreds and my children suffer immensely, I can't be the agent of… — Jack Abramoff
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in… — Corazon Aquino
Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate. — Jeffrey Archer
When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul,… — Robert Green Ingersoll
OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard. — Ambrose Bierce
Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse. — George Bernard Shaw
The idea that the United States can't guard its own border is silly. It's a sign that were not serious about this...people who legally shouldn't… — Newt Gingrich
Every time we sign a treaty with another country, the treaty (should) include prisoner transfer provisions.... Under these provisions, the country in which the crimes… — Kathleen Brown
Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison. — Unknown Author
Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service… — Frederic Bastiat
Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held. — Edward McKendree Bounds
God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison. — Thomas Brooks
More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is… — Jonathan Kozol
The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a… — Niccolo Machiavelli
we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have to make sure… — Amartya Sen
A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it. — Charles Lamb
Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Concentrated power can be always wielded in the interest of the few and at the expense of the many. Government in its last analysis is… — Lucy Parsons
I'm a golfaholic, no question about that. Counseling wouldn't help me. They'd have to put me in prison, and then I'd talk the warden into… — Lee Trevino
A society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons. — Rick Steves
So long as there are poor, - I am poor, - So long as there are prisons, - I am a prisoner, - So long… — Fulton J. Sheen
The main point in our report was to recommend decriminalization...because of the way laws are applied, which have not worked. We have applied them for… — Kofi Annan
Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping. — Steve Buscemi

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