Prison Quotes

1427 Prison quotes by 949 unique authors

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger. — Philip Emeagwali
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger. — Philip Emeagwali
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that… — Mike Epps
When I played, the owners had the power. The prisoners are running the prison now, not the warden. The warden is strong and he has… — Julius Erving
The reason I'm not more political is because I have music. And from a young age, I needed it. After prison, my father came to… — Gloria Estefan
I got a fan letter on the back of a prison menu. And I remember thinking, 'Well, they get pie. It's not so bad. They… — Tina Fey
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison. — W.C. Fields
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. — Malcolm Forbes
Just look at the great Nelson Mandela. He came out of prison and saved his entire country. Some of the best people in the world… — George Foreman
The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling… — Nhat Hanh
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous. — Jack Herer
It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them. — David Hockney
A thief believes everybody steals. — E. W. Howe
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. — Victor Hugo
And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines… — David Icke
I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking… — James Inhofe
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we… — Eugene Ionesco
Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the… — Muhammad Iqbal
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. — Thomas Jefferson
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told… — Mother Jones
They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose. — Janis Karpinski
There's no doubt I expect to die in prison. — Jack Kevorkian
One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making… — Val Kilmer

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