Prison Quotes
1427 Prison quotes by 949 unique authors
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As an independent person, I find it difficult being dependent for everything, for even my food and medicine, to the prison authorities. I have had…
— Asif Ali Zardari
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I have done prison time for 13 years without any conviction.
— Asif Ali Zardari
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The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner.
— Elliott Abrams
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My concern is not for the judicial system, but for the reality that the shark fin mafia of Costa Rica has a price on my…
— Paul Watson
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Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.
— Robert D. Hare
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At the final day, the Savior will not ask about the nature of our callings. He will not inquire about our material possessions or fame.…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a…
— Karl G. Maeser
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On some days in prison you might just need to get out of there, but on some days - not all days, but some -…
— Uzo Aduba
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People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.
— Laura Prepon
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I just absolutely, totally hated school. It was like a prison to me. I just could not stand that structured, absolute disciplined way of having…
— Kim Basinger
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There are nations, where people live in captivity, fear and silence. I believe, one day from prison camps and torture cells and from exile the…
— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
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My buddy tells me a lot of interesting stories about what goes on in prison - it just makes my head spin about what they…
— Unknown Author
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to…
— J M Coetzee
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
— Yael Stone
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When a person in a Russian prison decides to start speaking, to start speaking the truth - they start to reject oppression.
— Unknown Author
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Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions. I crawled along…
— Robin Wasserman
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Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone…
— Ian Mckellen
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I, Master John Hus, in chains and in prison, now standing on the shore of this present life and expecting on the morrow a dreadful…
— Jan Hus
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A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
— Robert M. Hutchins
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America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
— Bruce Jackson
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Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all…
— Bobby Scott
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The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.
— Bobby Scott
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Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my…
— Kaspar Hauser
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With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse…
— John Spratt
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There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.
— Pat Brown
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