Prison Quotes

1427 Prison quotes by 949 unique authors

The zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. I wanted… — Russell Hoban
It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to… — Sherman Alexie
I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others.… — Corrie Ten Boom
Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail and prisons, however,… — Chris Hedges
What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison. — Eazy-E
Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison. — Nawal El Saadawi
People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is… — Pete Earley
Three year sof unconditional MFN have not lead to any subtantial improvement in human rights, trade and nuclear proliferation practice of the Chinese government. In… — Nancy Pelosi
There's a kind of decadence about all this: If 9/11 was really an inside job, you wouldn't be driving around with a bumper sticker bragging… — Mark Steyn
The place resembled a new model prison, or one that had achieved a provisional utopia after principled revolt, or maybe a homeless shelter for people… — Sam Lipsyte
The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw… — Henry David Thoreau
My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love.… — Oscar Wilde
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer. — Brendan Behan
A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner. — Mahatma Gandhi
If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands permanently behind your… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times! — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted… — Ethel Smyth
Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom? — Cynthia Ozick
Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim. — Oscar Wilde
Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a room with doors open and… — Gloria Steinem
Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round about 1894. With… — Stephen Fry

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