Prison Quotes

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

The frogs hopping indoors agree that we are on a prison planet. They themselves are frog criminals that were convicted of doing frog crimes.

to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe." from Pavilion of Women page 292

It costs the same to send a person to prison or to Harvard. The difference is the curriculum.

Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

I was already a wreck when I went in, and prison nearly destroyed what little was left of me. I was worse when I came out than I was when I went in, and was not positively changed in any way.

Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.

In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

Every crime destroys more Edens than our own

I think the reality of prison is you don't get anything unless you want it in there. Whatever happens to you in prison, this is what you asked for. Nothing happens to you if you don't give that vibe.

Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace

I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks.

Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted to commit crime think twice.

I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally.

Justice renders to every one his due.

I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.

In Russia, we have a long tradition of compassion for people who have been put into labor camps or prison.

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.

We have this exploding prison population. We have the equivalent of martial law on a day-to-day, 24/7-hour basis in our cities, because we have not heard the cry for help by young people in 1967.

I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.

What I'm really trying to say is that I believed an armed insurrection could work. After I was shot and went to prison, that ended that illusion. I had time to think.

What would happen if we financed somebody in the U.S. to destabilize the government of George W. Bush? They would go to prison, certainly.

My thoughts took frantic flight, wanting to escape this prison, and seek out the wind so it could fan my hair and sting my skin, and make me feel alive again.

Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

Well, the first two days in prison, I had to go through what life is like when you've been smoking weed for as long as I have and then you stop. Emotionally, it was like I didn't know myself.

When you live your whole life in a prison freedom can be so dull

Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.

I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.

If it doesn't make sense, you must find for the defense.

Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.

Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.