Quotes About Prison

#1. Wanderlust is not unheard of in our kind; it comes upon us now and then. When you can live forever, staying in one place can come to seem a dull prison after many, many years.

Cassandra Clare

#2. See, you're out your mind tryin' to face tha God.
Your rhyme is like an empty prison ... a waste of bars.

Lord Finesse

#3. Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

Charles Caleb Colton

#4. A society becomes a breeding ground of violence and terrorism when it closes its door to new ideas and forces the citizens to live in the prison of conforming thoughts.

Debasish Mridha

#5. 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

#6. We have over the years proven again and again that every piece of evidence used to convict me has been false. The FBI with its unlimited resources has done everything it possibly can to keep me in prison.

Leonard Peltier

#7. The general public knows practically nothing about the prison and appears to be little concerned about how it is managed and how prisoners are treated.

Eugene V. Debs

#8. Prison has taught me that there is a part of you that no-one can ever take from you, and that is your heart.

Babar Ahmad

#9. To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.

Robert Burchfield

#10. Working in some corporations was like going to prison. You adopted the views of the people around you.

James S.A. Corey

#11. When I closed THE GRAPES OF WRATH, I was a different man. It enriched my powers of thinking and discipline, and my relationships. I left prison more informed than when I went in. And the more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are.

Nelson Mandela

#12. The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.

Christopher Lasch

#13. An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.

Joe Biden

#14. I've had some confrontations after I got out of prison and I'm proud of the fact that I dealt with them differently.

Immortal Technique

#15. Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

Danny Glover

#16. Don't let people supervise your life, If you know who you are, you shouldn't be living in that prison of dominance, live by your orders, you are your own soldier.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#17. So that's the story of how I committed statutory rape less than twenty-four hours out of prison
on my birthday no less

Joanna Wylde

#18. The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.

Andre Malraux

#19. Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government.

Tom Lantos

#20. If anything, my physical death would be, for me, a form of salvation, It would liberate me for ever from this hopeless prison, this pain of being me.

Haruki Murakami

#21. I think corporations are a whole lot different than people. I mean, I don't know a corporation would be put in prison. I do know people would be put in prison.

Jon Tester

#22. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our life will be filled with anguish and shame.

Elie Wiesel

#23. Consider Nelson Mandela who related; "When I had been released from prison and came home to my family, I went to embrace my daughter. She pushed me away. "You may be the father of the nation, but are no father to me." How is it, there are children who

Suzann Dodd

#24. I don't think anyone is free - one creates one's own prison.

Graham Sutherland

#25. Be free, not from a prison, but from yourself.

Debasish Mridha

#26. She didn't realize she was in a prison until she collided with the bars.

Joyce Rachelle

#27. When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

Ho Chi Minh

#28. Joseph went from kidnap experience to pit, to slavery, to prison then to PRIME MINISTER

Ikechukwu Joseph

#29. America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

George W. Bush

#30. The irony of prison is that it takes years and years and years to plan an elaborate escape, but all you have is years and years and years.

Greg Gutfeld

#31. I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

Charles Colson

#32. This wretched body, the chain and prison of the soul, is tossed hither and thither; upon it punishment and pillage and disease wreak havoc: but the soul itself is holy and eternal, and it cannot be assailed with violence.

Seneca.

#33. Two places in this world make it impossible for a man to escape from himself: a battlefield and a prison cell.

Anwar Sadat

#34. 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 with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build.

Sean O'Casey

#35. 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 death, which will, I hope, purge away my sins, find no heresy in myself, and accept with all my heart any truth whatsoever that is worthy of belief.

Jan Hus

#36. I have been shown in darkness, light, and have learned that even in prison, one can be free. I am grateful. I have come to see that there is good in every situation, sometimes we just have to look for it.

Kayla Mueller

#37. Gabriela was in prison for Judaizing, but she recited the prayers of her tormentors. She had not even the comfort of the religion for which she was punished.

David Liss

#38. Closing the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is a promise President [Barack] Obama made it but has yet to fulfill.

Audie Cornish

#39. To control a people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And when your conqueror makes you ashamed of your culture and your history, he needs no prison walls and no chains to hold you.

John Henrik Clarke

#40. Wylan looked as if he was ready to wet himself. Helvar appeared grim as always. Jesper just grinned and whispered, Well, we've managed to get ourselves locked into the most secure prison in the world. We're either geniuses or the dumbest sons of bitches to ever breathe air.

Leigh Bardugo

#41. Raising an army of king's men with the king in an enemy prison?" Tuck queried. "What is difficult about that?" "I don't think he even has an army." "Well, that would make it slightly more tricky, I suppose," remarked Tuck.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#42. I miss dogs, man. I always had a family pet, always had a dog growing up. It was almost equivalent to the prison sentence, having something taken away from me for three years. I want a dog just for the sake of my kids, but also me. I miss my companions.

Michael Vick

#43. One in every fifteen people born in the United States in 2001 is expected to go to jail or prison; one in every three black male babies born in this century is expected to be incarcerated. We

Bryan Stevenson

#44. Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.

Paula Cole

#45. Two men - the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were being held in prison - had a dream the same night, and

Anonymous

#46. The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.

Ted Nelson

#47. What a world it is, Cora thought, that makes a living prison into your only haven. Was she out of bondage or in its web: how to describe the status of a runaway?

Colson Whitehead

#48. Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.

George Bernard Shaw

#49. It's very hard to be cut off in Glasgow because it's such a small city. You know, we have the highest rate of per-capita imprisonment, certainly in Britain, maybe in Europe. We have a very high murder rate here. So most people will know someone who's been to prison.

Denise Mina

#50. So maybe I'll spend some years in prison, but you'll have a big head start on me in hell!

Chuck Palahniuk

#51. The first time I spoke publicly about the Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanley Milgram told me: Your study is going to take all the ethical heat off of my back. People are now going to say yours is the most unethical study ever, and not mine.

Philip Zimbardo

#52. I believe in God. Or some great power beyond what we can imagine. But I think religion is a manmade prison.

Karina Halle

#53. Comfort ... was the key ingredient to making the prisoner crave the prison.

Ashim Shanker

#54. I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison.

Daniil Kharms

#55. Without turning prison life into something more meaningful, prisoners are more likely to reoffend.

Susan Hill

#56. Mr. McCain fought in Vietnam. I think that he has enough blood of peaceful citizens on his hands. It must be impossible for him to live without these disgusting scenes anymore. Mr. McCain was captured and they kept him not just in prison, but in a pit for several years. Anyone would go nuts.

Vladimir Putin

#57. Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?

Cynthia Ozick

#58. Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.

Cheri Huber

#59. When I was in prison, I read an article - don't be shocked when I say I was in prison. You're still in prison. That's what America means: prison.

Malcolm X

#60. I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives.

James McGreevey

#61. In terms of having an experience, seriously contemplating a murder was almost as good as going through with it, and it had the added benefit of not entailing risk. Between prison and no prison, no prison was clearly preferable.

Jonathan Franzen

#62. Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation

Malcolm Gladwell

#63. Mexico's No. 1 drug lord has escaped from prison and may be headed to the U.S. So Donald Trump was wrong. They ARE sending us their best.

Conan O'Brien

#64. Some random supernatural hit me hard from the side. With a shriek I went head-over-ass and landed on my face. Smooth. My wolf was real proud of that graceful move.

Eve, Jaymin (2015-01-29). Dragon Marked: Supernatural Prison #1 (p. 31). . Kindle Edition.

Jaymin Eve

#65. Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in prison - you can pray and know God hears!

Billy Graham

#66. I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me.

George Jackson

#67. We care (about prison education), very simply, because (prisoners) get out. Almost everyone who is locked up now is going to be set free one day. If we treat prisoners like animals the whole time they are locked up, that's what we'll get when they're back on the streets: wild, dangerous animals.

Christopher Zoukis

#68. In many respects, people on the outside suffered more than those of us in jail. In prison, we ate three times a day, we had clothing, we had free medical services, and we could sleep for 12 hours.

Nelson Mandela

#69. I see Edward Snowden as someone who has chosen, at best, exile from the country he loves-with a serious risk of his assassination by agents of his government or life in prison (in solitary confinement)-to awaken us to the danger of our loss of democracy to a total-surveilla nce state

Daniel Ellsberg

#70. Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I was able to taste innocence again. Looking at sensations freshly without the conceptual overly was very profound.

Ram Dass

#71. Her father had learned only one thing in prison. Not humility, nor patience, nor understanding...Marshall Kofer had learned to listen, at least to his daughter".

John Grisham

#72. My head is a prison I've been locked in from the start,
So if I'm treated like a criminal I might as well play the part.
(attrib: E. Tancarville)

Dan Garfat-Pratt

#73. I hate surprises, boss. The last surprise I got, somebody died.
Yeah, well. the last surprise I got, I went to prison.

Kameron Hurley

#74. He threw my father into a cold prison cell, then took me in his place! I think tying him up in front of a warm roaring fire is plenty generous, considering!

Liz Braswell

#75. We're talking about a prison-industrial complex. We're talking about a war on drugs that's generating unprecedented levels of incarcerated folk. We're talking about dilapidated housing. We're talking about joblessness and underemployment.

Cornel West

#76. Our cage
We make a quire, as doth the prison'd bird,
And sing our bondage freely.

William Shakespeare

#77. A novel! Why do you say this won't liberate anyone? Where does any man go to be free, whether he is poor or rich or even in prison? To Dostoyevsky! To Gogol!

Barbara Kingsolver

#78. Prison is not a joke.

Emy Storey

#79. Over the years I've learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

Joyce Meyer

#80. Gaza is often described as 'the world's largest open air prison' because no one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons - they don't have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost everyday.

Banksy

#81. 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

#82. In Russia, we have a long tradition of compassion for people who have been put into labor camps or prison.

Lyudmila Alexeyeva

#83. That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

Jack Henry Abbott

#84. People have passed through a very dark tunnel at the end of which there was a light of freedom. Unexpectedly they passed through the prison gates and found themselves in a square. They are now free and they don't know where to go.

Vaclav Havel

#85. We buy our chains from our jailers and only when we put need before desire will we escape the prison of neo-liberalism

Dean Cavanagh

#86. The worst prison would be a closed heart.

Pope John Paul II

#87. Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like the U.S. Post Office.

Jimmy Carter

#88. It's funny, Vasher thought, How many things begin with my getting thrown into prison.

Brandon Sanderson

#89. We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

Albert Einstein

#90. To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.

Jim Bakker

#91. GOD Has Planted in Your Heart [ ] The Desire To Search For HIM. Do Not Look At Your Weaknesses But Focus on The Search. Every Seeker is Worthy of This Search. Strive To Redouble Your Efforts, So That Your Soul May Escape From This Material Prison.

Rumi

#92. 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

#93. What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison.

Maria Edgeworth

#94. Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.

Trevor Phillips

#95. In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.

Theodor W. Adorno

#96. Most of us are living in a prison of our fixed, false beliefs and never try to find the door to get out to see and feel the beauty of life, even when the door is wide open and welcoming.

Debasish Mridha

#97. When you are born into bondage you can't see the prison.

Bryant McGill

#98. bet, he'll be back in prison before long," said the older guard.

David Baldacci

#99. A crust of lard, habit, and cowardice envelops the soul; no matter what it craves from the depths of its prison, the lard, habit, and cowardice carry out something entirely different.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#100. A girl locked in a tower with no life experience. But, you know, Rebecca ... this isn't a fairy tale. Your tower will never protect you from the darkness outside."
"And your tower will always be a prison," I said softly.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney