Top 100 Quotes About The Prison
#1. Turn the cell into a classroom and the prison into a university
Khalil Osiris
#2. A grateful mindset can set you free from the prison of disempowerment and the shackles of misery.
Steve Maraboli
#4. The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.
Jean Harris
#5. Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain.
T.D. Jakes
#6. I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.
Hosea Ballou
#7. I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with some of the most difficult people in our society. Buddhism was accessible and helpful for these individuals.
Joan Halifax
#8. Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?
Jessica Mitford
#9. The culture of sexual violence was so pervasive that even the prison chaplain was sexually assaulting women when they came to the chapel.
Bryan Stevenson
#10. You spend a lot of time thinking about how awful the prison is rather than envisioning your future.
Piper Kernan
#11. It takes more courage to be yourself than to live in the prison of ego with feelings of guilt. It takes a lot more courage to be happy than to be unhappy.
Human Angels
#12. The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.
Eugene V. Debs
#13. Awakenings are always terrifying as they force you to realize your past has been lived in confinement, the most disturbing part is when you recognize that the shackle holding you down are largely once you have placed upon yourself, the prison is self constructed
Dean Karnazes
#14. Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
John Ortberg
#15. I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?
Ron Reagan
#16. A war on cops? Then the question becomes who are they warring with? Because if you look at the prison system you can tell who the Prisoners of War are. The Black Man. Words are powerful and we must stop these divisive words that tare our country further apart instead of bringing us together.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#17. The prison was a shiver running up the spine of the shadowed background. The shiver running up Isabel's spine was only a piece of the haunted, crawling darkness before her. This prison, this disturbed place of long-lost hope, was the place she'd been looking for.
-Isabel, by E. L. Schoeman
E.L. Schoeman
#18. With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system.
Steve Buscemi
#19. The rise of the antiwar and civil rights movements, along with the emergence of radical groups such as the Black Panthers, the Black Liberation Army, the Puerto Rican independence movement, and the American Indian movement, saw a return to systematized abuse within the prison system.
Chris Hedges
#20. I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.
Mary Archer
#21. If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early '70s, something like four out of five people employed in the prison industry would lose their jobs. That's what you're up against.
Eugene Jarecki
#22. There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.
Pat Brown
#25. In this universe, love is the liberating force from the prison of judgment.
Debasish Mridha
#26. Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has t anointed me to bring good news to the poor; [1] he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and u the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
Anonymous
#27. Some people will try to condemn you to the prison of their bullshit. They tell you they want a soulmate, but they're actually creating a cellmate.
Steve Maraboli
#28. Being open is happiness and being closed is sadness. So free your mind from the prison of binding ideas and thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#29. Humility does not live in the prison of illusion that says that this world is a dark and terrible place. Those perceptions are phantoms; everything is eternity, God, divine.
Frederick Lenz
#30. Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#31. Only through action, through living, can we escape from the prison of thought and language.
Marty Rubin
#32. Today is the day to break free from the prison of the person you know yourself to be and step into a self you have yet to know. Will it be comfortable? No, but do it anyway.
Debbie Ford
#33. The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#34. Is it always in the interest of the public safety to seek the prosecutor's traditional solution
the harshest penalty possible? Or is the public best served by finding ways to change a kid's lot in life for the better, even if that means opening the prison door?
Edward Humes
#35. To be yourself, get out of the prison of your society.
Debasish Mridha
#36. Without God, there is a danger that we will stay trapped within the prison of the self. As
Jonathan Sacks
#37. A liberal education ... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
Robert M. Hutchins
#38. I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Gene Tierney
#39. The prison psychiatrist asked me if I thought sex was dirty. I told him only when it's done right.
Woody Allen
#40. The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt.
Plato
#41. In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, from the prison of past conditioning. Uncertainty is the fertile ground of creativity and freedom.
Deepak Chopra
#42. If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population.
Ricky Gervais
#43. This thing of darkness I acknowlege mine. There is nothing more confining than the prison we don't know we are in.
William Shakespeare
#44. He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may either go or stay, as he best likes; though his preference be determined to stay, by the darkness of the night, or illness of the weather, or want of other lodging.
John Locke
#45. The Gospel is not ultimately a defense from pain, it is the message of God's rescue through pain. In fact, it allows us to drop our defenses, to escape not from pain but from the prison of "How" and "Why" to the freedom of "Who?"
Tullian Tchividjian
#46. The cruelest prison of all is the prison of the mind.
Piri Thomas
#47. It is precisely because a child's feelings are so strong that they cannot be repressed without serious consequences. The stronger a prisoner is, the thicker the prison walls have to be, which impede or completely prevent later emotional growth.
Alice Miller
#48. Education shouldn't be the prison of known knowledge, but it should be the bridge to find the yet unknown universe of knowledge.
Debasish Mridha
#49. I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell.
Lee Tergesen
#50. Let the prison library not only meet the recognized needs of the men, but inspire them in further efforts. The reading habit once firmly fixed is among the best safeguards for any man.
Virginia Reeves
#51. Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
Muhammad Iqbal
#52. What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself.
Daniel Quinn
#53. May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#54. They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.
Janis Karpinski
#55. Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.
Seneca The Younger
#56. Home is the prison you always return to.
John Goode
#57. We have to cease to think, if we refuse to do it in the prison house of language; for we cannot reach further than the doubt which asks whether the limit we see is really a limit.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#58. Errors should free you from the prison of your ignorance rather than shackle you to your lowest moments.
Robert A. Giacalone
#60. When you are born into bondage you can't see the prison.
Bryant McGill
#61. Her hands were to her face but she could see through the prison of her fingers could see them how they were beautiful wrapped in light swathed in the bright angelic robes of Acceptance
Stephen King
#62. Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently - were proper instruments for incentivizing the judiciary. That's what the 'kids for cash' judges were apparently experimenting with.
Thomas Frank
#63. I have journeyed back in thought
with thought hopelessly tapering off as I went
to remote regions where I groped for some secret outlet only to discover that the prison of time is spherical and without exits. Short of suicide I have tried everything.
Vladimir Nabokov
#64. The prison bars deny you the now. You are forced to always think about the past or the future.
E. Leo Foster
#65. You are the prisoner, the prison and the prison keeper. Only you hold the key to your freedom.
Ricky Mathieson
#66. We want what the woman wanted in the prison queue in Leningrad, standing there with cold and whispering for fear, enduring the terror of Stalin's regime and asking the poet Anna Akhmatova if she could describe it all, if her art was equal to it.
Seamus Heaney
#67. The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a civilized state.
B. Traven
#68. Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.
Mahatma Gandhi
#69. My first concept was for a game in which you were a prisoner of war and simply had to escape. If you were caught, you'd be brought back to the prison. The idea was for a non-combat game.
Hideo Kojima
#70. Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
James Ussher
#71. Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.
Rumi
#72. I have never been contained except I made the prison.
Mari Evans
#73. I'm involved in quite a few ministries as a bridge builder, trying to match generous givers and donors to other ministries. Based on my past, I'm also involved in mainly the prison ministry. I go to jails and prisons and share my story, trying to give them some hope.
Lex Luger
#74. One should not forget the sins of their forebears, but nor can one advance by paying witness only to the failings of the past. To bury the past is to progress, and only in breaking the chains that bind can you escape the prison your predecessors have laid.
Scott Warren
#75. We are never free when we imprison ourselves in the prison of our fixed, false beliefs.
Debasish Mridha
#76. Freedom begins when each individual mind dares to liberate itself from the prison it created. We are free when the war in our heads is over.
Miguel Ruiz
#77. Tradition is the prison where change is detained ... To make a change, you need to agree that you are not going with the statement "this is how we do it"! Yes, that was how it was done, but what next? Agree to change!
Israelmore Ayivor
#78. They have been in prison so long that, if the prison door stands open, they would no longer notice!
Agatha Christie
#79. The prison that exists in a man's mind is far more difficult to escape from than anything built with brick walls and steel doors. For it is the fear of freedom that holds you inside ...
Anirban Bose
#80. Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.
Phil Ochs
#81. Man is often the prisoner of the culture he lives in. Question your culture to break the prison doors! Question it so that you can be able to see the incredible stupidities in your culture!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#82. John Kerry gave the enemy for free what I and many of my comrades in North Vietnam in the prison camps took torture to avoid saying.
Paul Galanti
#83. She read to find out what it was like to be French or Russian in the nineteenth century, to be a rich New Yorker then, or a Midwestern pioneer. She read to discover how not to be Charlotte, how to escape the prison of her own mind, how to expand, and experience.
Penelope Lively
#84. So what indeed! The lesson I myself learned over and over again when teaching at the college and then the prison was the uselessness of information to most people, except as entertainment. If facts weren't funny or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.
Kurt Vonnegut
#85. It is very difficult to break free from the prison of conformity and fixed false beliefs without changing our level of consciousness and awareness.
Debasish Mridha
#86. But one mustn't underestimate the primal appeal - to lose one's self, lose it utterly. And in losing it be born to the principle of continuous life, outside the prison of mortality and time.
Donna Tartt
#87. 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
#88. Our cage
We make a quire, as doth the prison'd bird,
And sing our bondage freely.
William Shakespeare
#89. 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
#90. You have opened up the prison gates of my womanhood. And all the passion that was unsatisfied in for me so many years, leaped into a wild reckless storm boundless as the sea.
Emma Goldman
#91. Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment. It is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego.
Eckhart Tolle
#92. I think that physics is about escaping the prison of the received thoughts and searching for novel ways of thinking the world, about trying to clear a bit the misty lake of insubstantial dreams, which reflect reality like the lake reflects the mountains.
Carlo Rovelli
#93. That's the dream of sex, isn't it? That you will be liberated from the prison of the body by the body itself, at long last desired, its strange tongue understood.
Olivia Laing
#94. There is a difference between the inmates of your criminal prisons and the inmates of your cultural prison: The former understand that the distribution of wealth and power inside the prison had nothing to do with justice.
Daniel Quinn
#95. She knew that the freedom was in herself, just as the prison had been.
Madeleine L'Engle
#96. I lost so many blessings while confined in the prison of my fear.
Sarah E. Ladd
#97. Donald Trump can do a lot of things I can't, but he can no more get out of the prison than I can
Daniel Quinn
#98. The prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.
Jessica Mitford
#99. Even as it clouds our corporeal vision, intoxication clarifies our spiritual vision. The mind, set free from the heavy bondage of the body, flees away like a prisoner whose guard has fallen asleep, leaving the keys at the prison gate.
Gerard De Nerval
#100. This great purple butterfly,
In the prison of my hands,
Has a learning in his eye
Not a poor fool understands.
William Butler Yeats
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