Prison Quotes

Prisons are the universities of the opposition.

People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.

I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support.

The US government decided today that because I did such a good job investigating the cyber-industrial complex, they’re now going to send me to investigate the prison-industrial complex.

Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?

The only thing worse than working acting in an airplane is working in a prison - they're cold, and the clanging and the noise, it just gets under your skin after a week.

To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy.

Vices are not crimes.

Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.

That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.

Prison does strange things to men. Although its purpose is to break the free spirit of a man, in many cases it just adds fuel to the fire that has never been and will never be extinguished.

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.

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

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.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

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

I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.

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

In prison, illusions can offer comfort.

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.

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

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

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

Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of capital punishment, prison torture and punishment of man by man altogether.

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.

Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.

If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.

The pathway to enlightenment is happiness. It doesn't really matter if you're successful, if you're in prison, if you're dying - if you have contact with light.

New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.

He is coming! He is coming! Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.