Prison Quotes

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

Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.

I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me.

Behind every great man in prison is another great man in prison.

Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.

Too many people are living in a prison that they have themselves manufactured.

Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Right believing is a light that illuminates the path to freedom out of this prison.

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

All of us have not been to a natural prison, but everybody in here has had a spiritual prison.

Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.

...the way to reform has always led through prison.

Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

I believe that pain and suffering can either be a prison or a prism.

When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.

You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

Tribes must be our homes, not our prisons.

[White House is] the finest prison in the world.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.

The soul is the prison of the body.

Are you searching for your soul? Then come out of your own prison.

You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it.

Back to prison. Maybe if you fake a heart attack, I can make a break for it. (Rose Hathaway says to Lissa Dragomir)

Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!

I would like to say prison life at its very best and worst infinitely sucks.

We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.

We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.

Saying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will unlock the prison door.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

When Reality is a prison, Your mind can set you free.

When I played, the owners had the power. The prisoners are running the prison now, not the warden. The warden is strong and he has say so but, the balance of power is definitely with the players.

Your room is not your prison. You are.

If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

All my friends and family are either in prison or don't make enough money. I don't know what the president really does. I haven't been able to experience that kind of shift yet.

What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself.

I Don't Want To Live Long. I Would Rather Get The Death Penalty Than Spend The Rest Of My Life In Prison

I go around the world dealing with running and hiding... I can't take a walk in the park . I can't go to the store... I have to hide in the room. You feel like you're in prison.

I had a lot of time and the first year I was in prison, I tried to get the party to stop the shooting, to stop the talk about the gun thing.

When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness into freedom.

Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

It hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world’s largest open-air prison.