Prison Quotes

1427 Prison quotes by 949 unique authors

Why would anyone expect Tyson to come out smarter? He went to prison for four years, not Princeton. — Lou Duva
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at… — Daniel Berrigan
It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they… — Thomas Mellon
The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu… — Janis Karpinski
I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison. — Freddy Fender
Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal. — Jeffrey Archer
You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free rather than put… — Jonah Goldberg
America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation,… — Bill Johnson
Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly lead public demands… — Conrad Black
When I arrived in prison, they locked the prison down that day because the media was all over the place. — Jack Abramoff
My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison door slamming shut and I… — Susan Polis Schutz
For I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me… — Bible
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his… — Bible
If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place… — C.S. Lewis
One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond… — Bertrand Russell
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of… — Albert Einstein
People who claim that sentencing a murderer to life without the possibility of parole protects society just as well as the death penalty ignore three… — Thomas Sowell
The Bible is a window in this prison of hope, through which we look into eternity — Unknown Author
Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. — Jalal Ad-Din Rumi
It's not the people who are in prison worry me. It's the people who aren't. — Unknown Author
I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a… — Jack Henry Abbott
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there. — Jack Henry Abbott
The world is not a prison house but a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the… — Edwin Arlington Robinson
Closing these two books, a reader senses that Joan Crawford, idol of an age, would have made an exemplary prison matron, possibly at Buchenwald. She… — Harriet Van Horne
If, someday, we all go to prison for downloading music; I hope they separate us by genres. — Orebela Gbenga

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