Prison Quotes

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

I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment, it is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego. It also strengthens the immune system and the body’s ability to heal itself.

One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: "Even if you put me in prison, I will keep on writing in the language which made you put me in prison."

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

Life and art had a nice parallel, in the sense of coming together as strangers who are separate in prison who need to work together, getting to know each other.

Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?

Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.

Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain.

I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.

There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.

Some go to prison for stealing, and others for believing that a better system can be provided and maintained than one that makes it necessary for a man to steal in order to live.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body

I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.

Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards

Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed.

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

Why do we put people who are on drugs in jail? They're sick, they're not criminals. Sick people don't get healed in prison. You see? It makes no sense.

There is always something to be happy about if we look for it: ‘Two men looked through prison bars, The one saw mud, the other stars.'

I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.

Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.

When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in chains. Women caged in cells. But we're the terrorists. It just doesn't make sense.

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.

The cruelest prison of all is the prison of the mind.

Are you searching for the river of your soul? Then come out of your prison. Leave the stream and join the river that flows into the ocean.

The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

I hate taking refugees. I guarantee you they are bad. That is why they are in prison right now. They are not going to be wonderful people who go on to work for the local milk people.

I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.

When I was in prison, a Colombian drug lord, offered me $5 million in cash to manipulate a computer system so that he would be released. I turned him down.

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.

Not to sound cynical, but all you ever learn in prison is how to be a better criminal.