Prison Quotes
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.
How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end up in prison?
Scapegoating will go on forever. We need someone to blame - illegal immigrants, single moms, people in prison. We need someone to victimize.
People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.
Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.
More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.
My main dream - and I'm trying to get 'Living TV' to do it - is to go into prison and interview serial killers, rapists, murderers, psychopaths.
Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in.
The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a civilized state.
I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes it really hard to survive.
A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor.
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. Walk out like someone suddenly born into color. Do it now.
Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.
To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.
Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
The general public knows practically nothing about the prison and appears to be little concerned about how it is managed and how prisoners are treated.
It's natural for humans to suppress urges, for when our desires are left unchecked they lead to broken relationships, prison time, and forest fires.
The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.
It's difficult to seek other people's love. It's deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any theoretical, scientific or moral prison.
I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.
An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.
My time in prison only deepened my resolve against apartheid. Even while I was in prison, I fought against it, teaching my cellmates about white supremacy and how to fight against it.
In prison we are their jailers On trial their judges Persecuted their punishers Dead their conquerors
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.
During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem.
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Become placeless, for to change this place of water and clay is but to move from one prison to another.
Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.