Prison Quotes

1427 Prison quotes by 949 unique authors

The White House is the finest prison in the world. — Harry S. Truman
Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have… — Yulia Tymoshenko
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff. — Mike Tyson
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well. — Peter Ustinov
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. — Voltaire
Fear follows crime and is its punishment. — Voltaire
We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their… — Lech Walesa
Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined… — Lil Wayne
A mind enclosed in language is in prison. — Simone Weil
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in… — Cornel West
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be. — Oscar Wilde
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break. — Robert Anton Wilson
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn… — Mary Wollstonecraft
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. — Virginia Woolf
In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for… — John Yoo
The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life. — Philip Zimbardo
I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison,… — Michael Eric Dyson
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts… — Albert Einstein
In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this need for an… — Eugene Ionesco
I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But… — Neil Postman
If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the… — Edward Abbey
By the way, a gendarme assured me this is not a prison. — E E Cummings
The whole family is a bunch of dangerous freaks...Most are ex-cons or junkies or deranged from inbreeding. Five have died violently, three are back in… — Tim Dorsey

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