Prison Quotes

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!

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.

The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison.

I spent five years in prison, a free man for the first time in my whole life.

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp.

Hard to imagine 40 years ago people could be convicted of a crime, fined, sent to prison for using the most common forms of birth control.

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.

I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life.

Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

Just look at the great Nelson Mandela. He came out of prison and saved his entire country. Some of the best people in the world have spent time in prison.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.

After doing two years in prison, trust me, I've seen a lot of tough guys pray. They're not just praying for themselves; they're praying for their family and the people they've let down.

I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.

The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.

Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities.

In South Korea, a scientist considered to be one of the pioneers in the field of cloning has been sentenced to two years in prison. At least, they think it's him.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

When you go to prison they forget it's your Constitution, too.

You never know you are in a prison unless you try the door

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.

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

Over the course of my career, which is about 40 years, I've visited plenty of prisons and I know what they're like.

Most prisons have wide gates!

I have been shown in darkness, light [and] have learned that, even in prison, one can be free.

I now stop feeling guilty. I let myself out of that prison.

I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison songs - how people just sang to get through things.

People charged with drug offenses, though, are typically poor people of color. They are routinely charged with felonies and sent to prison.

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.

I've shot films in locations that have seemed haunted. I shot a film in a maximum-security prison in Russia. Part of it was on a psychiatric ward - there were definitely some creepy vibes there.

There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.

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.

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

I met my fathers in prison, they too a part of a scene; digging death.

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.

Remember that the Unification Church rose, not in freedom, but from a prison, the pit of suffering.

Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

Dayodhuam: I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

Nobody is free… Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons.

In Russia one can be as pure as can be and still lose everything in a flash and end up in prison.