Prison Quotes

Like you, I have been disgraced about what I've seen on TV that took place in prison.

There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.

I'm certain prison is pretty rough as it is but imagine if you were a murderer and a foodie!

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.

Historically, there would always be people among the general population who had family members, friends, cousins who'd done time or who'd been in prison.

When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it it was a very spiritual time for me.

When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.

Schools resemble the culture of prisons.

Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison.

In some cities such as Washington, DC, that 75 percent of young black men can expect to serve time in prison.

Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew, In prison pine with bondage and restraint; And with remembrance of the greater grief To banish the less, I find my chief relief.

Make not thyself the judge of any man.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

I don't believe in the death penalty. I believe that there are other people as we speak right now in prison, wrongfully accused, who could serve such a fate. That is injustice at its greatest.

It's time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population.

We will never build enough prisons to end our crime problem.

You shouldn't have a profit motivation to fill prison cells with young Americans.

I only hope those rumors I hear about what goes on in prison are greatly exaggerated.

It is grievous to be caught.

Our prison in Georgia is a very different place from this prison here in Berlin. The conditions there are inhuman.

Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]

I could go to juvie instead of real prison.

Bridget did the only thing she could do in this situation that wouldn't end with her doing a life stint in prison. She flipped the woman off. With both hands.

You are in a prison with no bars. I worry about you.

Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society.

Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.

Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?

There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.

Better to build orphanages than prisons.

Sensitivity is equated with weakness. Feelings are for women. It's OK to express happiness or anger, but it's not OK to feel fear or sadness. This gets exaggerated in prison.

I'm not fearful by nature, but I am vigilant. When you walk into a prison, it's important that a sixth sense kicks in.

If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison or running one.

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

What are you doing here?” [ndr prison] Selling Girl Scout cookies,” I said. “Want some? The Samoas are terrific.” (Max II to Max)

Let's say that you commit a crime, you get caught, you might get sent to prison. It's going to be bad. But if you get caught spying, you're literally hanged the next morning.

American Taliban John Walker Lindh has pleaded guilty to two counts of terrorism and will face twenty years in prison. I guess that means his jihad is on ji-hold.

If it wasn't for prison, I was in a bad way.

The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.

That's why you need the war on drugs to put all these pot smokers in prison so that the prisons remain full and the corporations remain profitable. It's a slippery slope.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.

As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison.

I'll hit anyone who's seriously threatening my life... that's what happened, and that's what sent me to prison.

I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least.

President Obama became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison yesterday. Obama said it was a good chance to talk about prison reform, and to catch up with so many former congressmen.

The living grave of crime.

It seems to be the sense that once you throw guys in prison they're not going to come out. No, they're going to come out and, you know, what kind of beast have you created from that process?