Prison Quotes

Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

At six o'clock we cleaned our cells, At seven all was still, But the sough and swing of a mighty wing The prison seemed to fill, For the Lord of Death with icy breath Had entered in to kill.

Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

I don't think Edward Snowden deserves a death penalty or life in prison. I think that's inappropriate. I think that's why he fled, [because] that is what he faced.

I could survive in a Turkish prison, probably.

I hate liver, but I could imagine eating some with a little bit of ketchup. Like, a lot of ketchup. I could survive in a Turkish prison, probably.

It turns out Dimitri had a friend, who had a friend, and despite the best security in the Moroi world, we managed to get into the Court's prison facilities.

Honestly, I thought I was going to be a kite forever, suffocating inside a little feathery prison. And he had the nerve to make fun!

My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990 and he hasn't reoffended. I think he's going straight, which shows you prison does work.

Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison; they turn to poetry.

Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon.

The fastest growing occupation in the private sector is security guards. The fastest growing occupation in the public sector is prison guards. (1992)

The man who has received this great deliverance is no longer a convict, painfully observing all prison rules with the hope of shortening his sentence, but a child in the home of God.

Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.

My kid wants to be a prison warden when he grows up so he can put thumb tacks on the electric chairs.

[Some men are shortsighted, so] going to prison or going to hell just doesn't matter to these men.

If somebody's in prison for non-violence, drug usage, and never committed a hard crime, they should be pardoned and let out.

I don't have any intentions to return to England. I would go back if I could return as a free person. I don't want to return to prison.

I'm never going to get married again. Three strikes, you're out. I think if I would try to get married again in California, I have to go to prison, don't I? I think you only get three.

I think it [Brexit] is wonderful.We've got to decide in this country who we are.We made a momentous decision.It's a bit like a prison break.

Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody.

We will not put our sons in prison for political membership or resisting occupation, because occupation is the reason for the problem.

Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up.

Children of those who have been incarcerated are five times more likely to go to prison than children of parents who have never been incarcerated. The sins of the father visiting the child.

I was certainly naïve about the judicial system in America. There's a lot of people who are in prison who are innocent. The system is very flawed.

I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

No crime has been without a precedent.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.

You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts.

If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.

My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing.

Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build

There are likable characters in prison. Sometimes the worst criminals are also some of the most charming people.

Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out.

In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.

Your mind is your prison when you focus on your fear.

The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.

Beliefs are either the keys to your freedom, Or they can also become the giant locks to the prison That keeps you from achieving what you want.

American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.

Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.

Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.

You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes - the wall, the wall!

Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain.

Perhaps some day, modern people will learn that mystery is not the prison of the mind of people, it is their home.

In brief, we do more research on men in prison, men in the military, and men in general than we do on women for the same reason we do more research on rats than we do on humans.

The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.