Prison Quotes

It is for him that is lonely or in prison to dream of fellowship, but for him that is of a fellowship to do and not to dream.

Make not your thoughts your prisons.

Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.

Like many resisting oppression, Palestinian Gandhis are likely to be found in prisons after being repressed by Israeli soldiers or police or in the hospital after being brutally beaten or worse.

In here I'm the guy who can get things for you... outside all you need is the Yellow Pages. I don't think I could make it.

Love is what freed me from the cell of my selfishness.

I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.

Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be.

Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgments which are pronounced in it have no force but are nullified and destroyed by private persons?

They found him guilty, and brother, if Maine had the death penalty, he would have done the airdance before that spring's crocuses poked their heads out of the dirt.

It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.

[Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.

The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from.

The wide corridor up the centre of E Block was floored with linoleum the colour of tired old limes, and so what was the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain.

When you spend your life taking care of mudmen, you can't help getting a little dirty yourself.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly the true place for a just man is also a prison.

I know not whether laws be right Or whether laws be wrong All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong And that each day is like a year A year whose days are long.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.

Our hearts are all prison walls when we hold people captive with chains of unforgiveness.

This is central to the development of feminist abolitionist theories and practices: we have to learn how to think and act and struggle against that which is ideologically constituted as "normal".

You are as free as a prisoner in an open air prison

Here is a fact for you: Your prison is made by yourself!

How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.

That’s the ironic thing about time, Doc. One the one hand, we don’t have much of it for this, but it’s all I have in here.

Whattaya mean you ain’t no criminal lawyer? You a lawyer right? And you in here, that means you also a criminal.

The loss of liberty may imprison a person, but it does not confine their mind.

The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don't live for yourself alone. Live for others too!

You are in your own prison.

When you are up in life your friends get to know who you are. When you are down in life you get to know who your friends are.#minoradjustments101

A society becomes a breeding ground of violence and terrorism when it closes its door to new ideas and forces the citizens to live in the prison of conforming thoughts.

Power does not pardon, power punishes.

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.

I was kind of excited to go to jail for the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

Most doctors are prisoners of their education and shackled by their profession.

Often religious education teaches us to conform and creates a psychological prison which is difficult to escape.

They say you can tell a lot about a country by the way it treats its prisoners…I believe the same can be said for how a country treats its children

He offered her power, money, status...a giant prison, all in exchange for only...her soul.

Your eyes were the bait luring me into your world. Your kiss was the trap door keeping me prisoner there.

The eyes of god are upon you, I mean the eyes of society. We are prisoners of societies in which we live

The more we construct lives that prioritize safety, the bigger the prison we construct around ourselves.

To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we’ve hemmed ourselves in by creating them in the first place.

That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.

You're still in prison if you do nothing better in freedom.

Nobody objected to live in prisonif already felt comfortable living in it.

Because of the Dharma, my mind was more free in prison than worldly people experience in the best of circumstances.

It is not the chains of some tyrant that robs us of freedom. Rather, it is the staleness of our attitude.

Sanity and sense becomes a prison.

this free-man's prison known as life.

Solitary confinement is rock bottom, it’s absolute unfreedom.