Prison Quotes

This dish ain't just called Karate Meat because it's got an Asian kick to it. It's called Karate Meat because it will beat you up like a pigeon in prison.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

Fear is a self imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move against it with the weapons of faith and love.

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

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

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.

Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control

What does this system seem designed to do? As I see it, it seems designed to send people right back to prison, which is what happens about 70% of the time.

I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in You.

It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.

Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. I wanted my death to be something the people could relate to, a basis for further mobilization of the community.

Typically, you get a year in prison for making a threat to assassinate the president.

The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard.

Become placeless, for to change this place of water and clay is but to move from one prison to another.

If people could see the inside of my brain, I would be in prison.

I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of.

See, you're out your mind tryin' to face tha God. Your rhyme is like an empty prison...a waste of bars.

we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system.

If we have a bitcoin universe, you don't get to print money for war. You don't get to have money for a prison/industrial complex. You don't get money for a war on drugs. You have to ask the people.

I kept talking to my producers at Columbia about recording one of those [prison] shows. So we went into Folsom on February 11, 1968, and recorded a show live.

Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.

You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

The prison scandal is really hurting President Bush's poll numbers. In fact, I hear he's already working on his concession smirk.

It's best that I hide my real personality. I cannot tell you what it is because I don't want to go to prison.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

I was literally living on the edge of life, to the point where I didn't know what was going to happen, not caring, taking chances and finally landing in prison and once there, all my lines were cut.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

Former U.S. House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, has been sentenced to three years in prison. One year for money laundering and two more for his performance on 'Dancing with the Stars.'

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Why, when God's world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places?

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

Prison Break really changed me to somebody that can put butts in seats.

Enlightenment is freedom, the thought of enlightenment is prison. The truth exists in the moment. If we´re anywhere else, seeking something outside of the moment, we´re in prison.

Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.

Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good friend is someone who comes to hear your lectures.

Mandela? He lasted 27 years in prison but he never could've done 30.

He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss

I'm a golfaholic, no question about that. Counseling wouldn't help me. They'd have to put me in prison, and then I'd talk the warden into building a hole or two and teach him how to play.

When I was in prison, I read an article - don't be shocked when I say I was in prison. You're still in prison. That's what America means: prison.