Prison Quotes

Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.

Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison.

The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison.

May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].

Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.

I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.

Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

I would stand there at times and remember how beautiful God created this world, and then I would be reassured that he would certainly take care of me and all of my loved ones.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

Prison is like high school with knives.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.

A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes...and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.

A house though otherwise beautiful, yet if it hath no garden belonging to it, is more like a prison than a house.

Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations.

A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.

A single thought can revolutionize your life as it did mine. A single thought can make you rich or it can land you in prison for the rest of your life.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.

We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.

It might be hard to believe, but the air in prison is different. There's like one thousand people sucking on the one little piece of fresh air until it turns stale.

Growth is a funny sort of concept. For example, our GNP increases every time we build a prison. Well, okay, it's growth in a sense.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

The worst prison would be a closed heart.

The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

They let dangerous men out of prison now, yes sir, I'm afraid it's so. Cause they're over crowded and it was only his fifth offense.

This thing of darkness I acknowlege mine. There is nothing more confining than the prison we don't know we are in.

I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.

You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.

Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.

The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.

I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me.

Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

I pulled the boy close to me and said you see that girl, thats my only lil girl. So if you think about huggin or kissin. Remember these words. I aint afraid to go back to prison.

Even behind prison walls I can see the heavy clouds and the blue sky over the horizon

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

Two places in this world make it impossible for a man to escape from himself: a battlefield and a prison cell.

'The prison' begins well before its doors. It begins as soon as you leave your house - and even before.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.