Prison Quotes

I'd rather be in prison in California than free anywhere else.

The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

I never imagined that I'd be out of prison.

When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?

I'm going to do the time and I am going to do it the right way

I would prefer to remain in prison for another 20 years than bargain my beliefs for freedom.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

To arrive is to be in prison.

Marriage can either be a classroom where people become wiser and better, or a prison where people become resentful; and bitter.

Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.

God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison.

Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.

We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as "nonparty," in prison.

AQAL is a map of samsara, a map of the prison, but if you gonna make a prison brake,you need a good map. (laughter)

The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.

You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody.

Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.

As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.

I escaped a North Korean prison camp

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

Nelson Mandela is a leader Barack Obama should try to emulate... He could start by spending 27 years in prison.

There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a father's love for his child.

I like the community of acting better than the prison of writing. I like sets.

When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

Common sense dictates the term hot fudge sundae has a totally different meaning in prison.

Awakening is about liberating yourself from the prison that is the world of the mind and daring to be here as all that you are.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.

This is a darker Lex too, because he's been in prison and he wants revenge. He's not playing around.

as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.

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 hiom.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to prison because I will kill him.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

If every crime victim had to have perfect judgment, we could empty our prisons.

I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.

The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

The greatest enemy of mankind is his ignorance of the inherent money power in all of us. When the realization of this comes to man, he will like Samson, push down the walls of his prison.

In prison, illusions can offer comfort.

If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

A beane in liberty is better then a comfit in prison.

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.