Prisons Quotes

211 quotes by 177 authors

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. — Virginia Woolf
And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their… — Haruki Murakami
Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons. — Alberto Manguel
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state. — Peter Kropotkin
This, after all, was the month in which families began tightening and closing and sealing; from Thanksgiving to the New Year, everybody's world contracted, day… — Zadie Smith
New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there,… — Henry Miller
Scientists are the enemies of tradition , and tradition own all the prisons. - Victor Vigny — Eoin Colfer
It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly terrible and disgusting… — Anthony Bourdain
All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day. -Fitz… — Robin Hobb
The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough?' Is my veil in place?' Can my… — Marjane Satrapi
I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.' Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite… — Emma Goldman
Are there no prisons? — Charles Dickens
If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices. — Jean Vanier
Look, I promise Iâ€™m not psychotic. Eccentric and idiosyncratic, but not psychotic. (Sebastian) Iâ€™ll bet the prisons are full of men who have told women… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
After... The seas have dried out The trains have come to a shrieking holt The hounds of the abyss cease to howl The prisons have… — Henry Rollins
There are worse prisons than words. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God. — Ian Fleming
Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them. — John Grisham
I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones. — Roberto Bolano

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