Greatest Prison Quotes

#1. The greatest prison a man can build is in his own mind.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. The greatest prison where most people live is the fear of what other people think and say

Osunsakin Adewale

#3. The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.

David Icke

#4. I am afraid the greatest prison that people live in is the fear what other people think ... Grow up & lose the fear.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#5. The greatest enemy of mankind is his ignorance of the inherent money power in all of us. When the realization of this comes to man, he will like Samson, push down the walls of his prison.

E.C. Riegel

#6. Who knows you more ... your friend or your enemy? It's your enemy that pursues with passion while your friend engages at leisure.

Donna Lynn Hope

#7. America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.

Henry Louis Gates

#8. Whether I'm feeding the homeless, stopping by a high school to chat with teens, visiting a prison or local jail, I think that the greatest service you can give is yourself. To be able to help someone who is not in a position to help themselves or possibly ever repay you.

Raheem Devaughn

#9. The only way I thought I could do a greatest hits album is to do it in a prison where they have no f**king idea who I am. I'd do what I consider the best of those old, early CDs before I did DVDs. A women's prison would be even better, but it has to be English-speaking.

Doug Stanhope

#10. I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

Emil Cioran

#11. My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990 and he hasn't reoffended. I think he's going straight, which shows you prison does work.

Ricky Gervais

#12. I don't believe in the death penalty. I believe that there are other people as we speak right now in prison, wrongfully accused, who could serve such a fate. That is injustice at its greatest.

Hilary Swank

#13. Don't you think that I've been giving up?
Don't you think that I've been giving up?Change,
I take the blame.

Tegan Quin

#14. Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising.

Robert Smithson

#15. It's so reassuring to have a woman heroine who triumphs with more than just what she has on the outside ... who has more to offer the world than just a pretty picture.

America Ferrera

#16. Having a support system is huge for writers. My parents were always encouraging and told me they were behind me, whether or not I made it in the business. My wife was always there for my successes and failures.

Stephen J. Cannell

#17. No one ever goes to libraries. And they know ALL the good stuff. (Layla Miller)

Craig Kyle

#18. I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.

Dolly Parton

#19. The greatest mystery was not that we have been flung at random among the profusion of the earth and the galaxy of the stars, but that in this prison we can fashion images of ourselves sufficiently powerful to deny our nothingness.

Maurice S. Friedman

#20. In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#21. Walnut Trees of Altenburg: The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of the earth and the galaxy of the stars, but that in this prison we can fashion images of ourselves sufficiently powerful to deny our nothingness.2

James Hollis

#22. I think music changed when Bruce Springstee came on the scene. I think if it wasn't for Bruce Springstee, music would have gone in a very scary direction. We may have gotten to where disco music ruled - and I would've had to quit.

Jeff Baxter

#23. Accepting and appreciating heart brings abundance in life but gratitude acknowledge and dance with joy of receiving.

Debasish Mridha

#24. Smokey Wilson was like my Gandhi. If I had run into somebody else in prison, with a different set of values, the world might have never known one of the greatest boxing talents ever to come out of Philadelphia.

Bernard Hopkins

#25. The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.

Andre Malraux

#26. One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.

Dorothy Day