Prison Quotes

1427 Prison quotes by 949 unique authors

The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have become so inured… — Angela Davis
Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of… — Angela Davis
We're all our own prisons, we are each all our own wardens and we do our own time. I can't judge anyone else. What other… — Charles Manson
Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind? — Chang-Rae Lee
Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison. — Charles Dickens
A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a… — Max Horkheimer
Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons? — Michel Foucault
What makes Bush different from Hitler? He commits crimes in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons. With all these crimes, they still behave like bullying claimants.… — Ali Khamenei
The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars — Tariq Ramadan
I’m not for profiling people on the color of their skin, or on their religion, but I would take into account where they've been traveling… — Rand Paul
An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls-even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls-without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell. — Pearl S. Buck
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster. — Suge Knight
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse. — Valentino Rossi
Unless your freedom turns into a creative realization, you will feel sad. Because you will see that you are free-your chains are broken, and you… — Rajneesh
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking… — Elizabeth Drew
You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall and riddle it… — Sean O'Casey
Seriously, in 2008 we elected a community organizer, state senator, college instructor first term senator over a guy who spent five years in a Vietnamese… — Jonah Goldberg
Identity is a concept of our age that should be used very carefully. All types of identities, ethnic, national, religious, sexual or whatever else, can… — Unknown Author
When sex becomes conscious it is love, it is no longer lust. Love brings freedom, and lust simply creates prisons for you. — Rajneesh
Too many people are living in a prison that they have themselves manufactured. — Michael Beckwith
Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner to be released,… — Gautama Buddha
I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me to its savage fancies, I… — Eric G. Wilson
I remember my emotions the day we watched Nelson Mandela walk out of prison Writing & literature in South Africa during the anti-apartheid years, became… — Achmat Dangor
The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity. — Leonard Ravenhill
I love to eat. That's why I got so fat; I love to eat. If I don't walk away from a meal hurting, I didn't… — Greg Behrendt

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