Prison Quotes

The last place I would ever want to go is prison.

When policemen go to prison in England, they have as bad a time as a pedophile.

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

... an institution cannot be run progressively on a basis of fear.

If you want to know how many prison cells to build, look at the number of third graders who can't read.

The prison is the state writ small.

Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.

The prison keeper choose an inopportune time to look around the doorway into the cell. He and the king locked gazes, and the king's eyes narrowed while the prison keeper's widened.

Fear is the strongest prison and courage is the only way out!

The world like our heads was meant to be escaped from, they are prisons world and head alike.

Army Specialist Bradley Manning deserves a medal, not prison.

No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.

Sleep is a prison for a boy who has friends to meet.

For many, whether they go to prison or not is far less about the choices they make and far more about what kind of cage they're born into.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

No mandatory prison term for employers who hire illegals.

If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.

Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution.

I know [Arthur Koestler] fought in the Spanish Civil War. He was in prison, I think, in Spain and in Russia. He came to the United States; that's when I saw him in the mid-1940s.

The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.

During the '80s I wrote Memoirs from the Women's Prison. This is one of my most important books. It came out in Arabic in '83. About my experience in prison.

Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.

I am not the only one who did not want revenge. Almost all my colleagues in prison did not want revenge, because there is no time to do anything else except to try and save your people.

In many respects, people on the outside suffered more than those of us in jail. In prison, we ate three times a day, we had clothing, we had free medical services, and we could sleep for 12 hours.

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.

I was always shocked in prison because it's a scary place. It's not natural to lock that many people up like that, in such a tiny place. There's something disturbing about it.

I used to teach writing in a federal prison, and for my students' benefit, I would liken the narrative use of this highly personal point of view to a boxer's getting in close to his opponent.

You can't expect someone who has been in prison his whole entire life to turn around and become a sweet guy who writes books and walks his dog and has a normal life.

Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.

Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal tennis prison.

The United States has more women and girls in prison than any other industrialized nation on earth.

My husband regarded my prison past as a dirty secret and never asked me one single question about it. But what I had experienced and witnessed was eating at me and I needed to "tell somebody."

My friends in prison were mostly women more like myself: not historical figures who I did not relate to as peers, but hookers and addicts.

I don't believe anyone can go through the prison experience without being changed by it. The experience becomes part of your identity forever.

The only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year.

Obesity is a prison; in the US we spend more to treat type 2 diabetes each year than is spent on education.

Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.

I would prefer to get lashed rather than go to prison.

I've spent a lot of time in prisons, first doing legal work and later, teaching.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

You can continue your practice, you can exercise kindness, you can practice meditation whether you're in a prison or a millionaire's house, whether you're in India or Tibet.

Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.

A golf course is for golf. A tennis court is for tennis. A prison camp is for escaping.

Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people leave prison more broken than when they went in.

Prison Notebooks gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.

Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.

I am happy in my prison of passion

It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.

...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.