Prison Quotes
All during that prison time I really lived by prayer. Be in prayer always, we're told, and back then I was.
We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.
Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored
I believe, and I may be wrong, the system sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Prison is supposed to rehabilitate, but they don't do that in a lot of cases.
PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.
If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.
Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time - until you really start to look inside the system and you see, this is not right.
What mostly prevents black people from voting is that drug laws send them to prison, and then they can't vote.
We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports.
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.
The man who accused Richard Simmons of slapping him in an airport has dropped the assault charge. Dropped it! Upon hearing the news, Simmons sadly responded, "You mean I'm not going to prison?"
The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.
Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings.
Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact that since 1970, the number of people behind bars... has increased 600 percent.
I've had some confrontations after I got out of prison and I'm proud of the fact that I dealt with them differently.
They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.
But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.
The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons.
An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.
Prison opened my eyes to so many things. It was a great time. I met interesting people. I got to understand the behaviour of the police and the media. I am an observer of the human race.
I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows
People have no clue that they’re in prison, they don’t know that there is an ego, they don’t know the distinction.
Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.
When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.
The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.
What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison.
Some teachers should be put in prison for the way they either take advantage of women in their classes or destroy fragile egos. Be careful who you ask to help you when you're in the arts.
Nature with her wonders blinds and binds one still. There is no escape. I love her utterly through all time and times. All over the world towns to me are prison; green fields are home.
It would serve the Americans right if we emptied the prisons and let the subversives take power. They'd soon show Washington just how much they appreciate good old American values.
She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.
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.
Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.
For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire.
Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those.
In Israel, the maximum legal penalty for denying the existence of God is one year in prison, while the punishment for denying the existence of the Holocaust is up to five years' imprisonment.
