Prison Quotes

1427 Prison quotes by 949 unique authors

I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all… — John McCain
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were… — George MacDonald
The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison. — Charles Spurgeon
I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I may not break… — Joseph Hall
The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution. — Walter Raleigh
Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What… — Cesare Pavese
Why do people hanker for the home? - security, safety. But in the name of security and safety, they don't make homes, they make prisons… — Rajneesh
This mind is a prison. It cannot find any freedom anywhere. It must die before freedom comes to you. But we have taken the mind… — Rajneesh
Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer. — Dorothy Rowe
America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. — James Bovard
Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to a majority; but… — Henry David Thoreau
No, you can take it from an expert in cover-ups-I've lived through Watergate-that nothing less than a resurrected Christ could have caused those men to… — Charles Colson
[President Clinton] boasts about 186,000 people denied firearms under the Brady Law rules. The Brady Law has been in force for three years. In that… — Charlton Heston
I don't care if you want to hunt, I don't care if you think it's your right. I say, sorry, you are not allowed to… — Rosie O'Donnell
An inmate in a Florida prison wrote to agree with me on the availability of guns, saying that a 'criminal can and will get a… — Thomas Sowell
A Jesus had to be crucified because he was an alive man. He must have called in his childhood, "Jesus, don't be befooled by others."… — Rajneesh
Go forth! Carry the good tidings to the poor, bind the wounds of the brokenhearted, proclaim freedom to slaves, open the doors of prisons to… — Pope Benedict XVI
There is only one way out of the trap: that you don`t choose; neither this nor that - you simply don`t choose. You withdraw from… — Rajneesh
I is a great prison. It is your slavery and bondage to the mind. The moment you enter beyond the mind, you are - but… — Rajneesh
The man who is asleep reacts; he knows nothing of action. And reaction is a binding: it binds you into new prisons, new chains. Response… — Rajneesh
For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference means solitude. Those… — Elie Wiesel
The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers,… — Unknown Author
"On what motivated Colorado voters: "Let's face it, the War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well intentioned ... but it sent millions… — John Hickenlooper
If you want to know how many prison cells to build, look at the number of third graders who can't read. — Mary Landrieu

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