Prison Quotes

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

They kept me in a cage for too long because now every room I am standing in is just another cell.

anyone who has no feelings for animals has a dead heart.

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion

Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?

The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.

Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.

Prison is, simply put, the bottom rung of the welfare ladder.

I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.

I usually tell people I watch like '24' and 'Prison Break.'

Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.

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.

I'd never been a prison guard before or anything.

Our prison population quintupled in a thirty year period of time. Not doubled or tripled - quintupled. We went from a prison and jail population of about 300,000 to now more than 2 million.

The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. The country with one-twentieth of the world's population has one-fourth of those in prison.

We made it,' he shouted. 'Not bad for a prison break, eh?' 'Good thinking Jake.

People like myself say, 'Fix the problem. Put him in the general [prison] population. The moral prisoners will deal with him in a way we don't have the nerve to do.'

The severest justice may not always be the best policy

Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.

Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.

Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.

Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.

The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate.

Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new day slipped into my cell, I found out that she was right.

Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career-and then you move to Paris.

When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.

As the nation-state has monopolized habeas corpus … on balance we have far more people in prison, federal and state, than ever.

The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the House was distressing to Members of Parliament generally.

It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme.

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

A lot of people that get out of prison have anti-social personality disorder, which makes them promiscuous and erratic, and they can't form ordinary relationships.

People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat.

Obviously this prison has been controversial ever since the first detainees arrived in Guantanamo more than 14 years ago.

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

What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.

I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.

Reflecting on his years in prison, Nelson Mandela wrote that there were dark moments that tested his faith in humanity, but he refused to give up.

All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.

Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.

Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.

I won't go back on my decision. I'm not afraid of prison, but there are even worse dangers.

Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces. The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush.

Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it.

In exchange for ten years of being on top, I'm gonna end up in prison or I'm gonna end up dead, and there's something fascinating about that.

You can just imagine the restrictions of shooting in a prison, but I just decided I'm going to embrace those restrictions sometimes when you don't have many choices you can make the best choices.

A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory, where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough becomes truth.

We are not in prison so we are free and happy? No. We're in a different kind of prison in this life. We have to confront it, and we have to liberate Istanbul and ourselves, as well.

In California, thieves have three choices: They can go to prison, Sacramento, or Washington D.C.