Prison Quotes
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.--Victor Hugo
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, a true place for a just man is also a prison.--Henry David Thoreau
A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes – and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.--Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!--Nathaniel Hawthorne
I’d watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal – against normal, not beside it. Locks didn’t cure; they strangled.--Scott Westerfeld
Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth.--John F. Kennedy
We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.-Janet Reno
We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.-Daniel Berrigan
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.-Lech Walesa
Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.-Jeffrey Archer
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.-Jeffrey Archer
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.-Philip Kaufman
When I finished the role of Christ, I felt as though I'd been let out on parole. A man who has served 18 months isn't eager to go back to prison.-Max von Sydow
When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?-Jim Bakker
When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.-Fernando Flores
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.-Mike Tyson
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like.-Julian Assange
When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.-Ho Chi Minh
While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.-Eugene V. Debs
Why would anyone expect Tyson to come out smarter? He went to prison for four years, not Princeton.-Lou Duva
Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up!-Kaspar Hauser
With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system.-Steve Buscemi
With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison.-John Spratt
Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.-Edwin Arnold
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.-Ellen Wilkinson
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.-Tim Allen
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.-Hunter S. Thompson
If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.-Belle Boyd
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.-Danny Glover
If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in.-Tim Roth
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.-Dwight D. Eisenhower
In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.-Merle Haggard
In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.-John Yoo
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.-Nelson Mandela
In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!-Joel McHale
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.-Eldridge Cleaver
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.-Suge Knight
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.-William Greider
Interesting enough, we had a reunion of the 12 of us who graduated, right? The only one who wasn't there was the guy who became a priest, and he was literally in prison in Libya, for being a Catholic priest. Isn't that interesting? Everybody else made the reunion but that guy.-Peter Jurasik
It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.-Stephen Breyer
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.-Malcolm Forbes
It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they clearly deserve it.-Thomas Mellon
It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to you, they have no authority over you. These maniacs have no authority over us. And they might be able to put our bodies in prison, but they can't put our spirits in prison.-Cindy Sheehan
Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.-Samuel Rutherford
Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese -Government.Tom Lantos
May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.-Sammy Davis, Jr.
Sadly, every year hundreds of children are victimized by a convicted sexual offender. Convicted predators should be put in prison where they belong and kept away from our Nation's children.-Jim Costa
Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.-Danny Glover
Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.-Jeffrey Archer
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.-Robert Smithson
Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.-Richard Lovelace
Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.-Bobby Scott
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.-Mary Wollstonecraft
That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.-Jack Henry Abbott
That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.-Antonia Fraser
That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he did, which was to go to prison on the weekends; I think he lectured there-an outside lecturer.-Ishmael Reed
The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who "disappeared". That's what the candle is for.-Peter Benenson
The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.-Janis Karpinski
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.-William Gurnall
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.-Denis Healey
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.-Bobby Scott
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.-Nathaniel Hawthorne
The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.-Ted Nelson
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.-George W. Bush
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.-Israel Zangwill
Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.-Muhammad Iqbal
Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.-Lindsey Graham
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.-Mike Epps
He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.-Thomas Hobbes
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.-Victor Hugo
He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison.-Daniel Drew
His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do.-Maurice Ashley
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.-Naguib Mahfouz
Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.-Yakov Smirnoff
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.-W. C. Fields
I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.-Christopher Love
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.-Mary Harris Jones
I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.-Juliette Binoche
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.-Charles W. Colson
I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, 'I wish this would have been brought out sooner, my sister is in prison for suffocating her child.'-Marie Osmond
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.-Valentino Rossi
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.-Gene Tierney
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.-Michael Biehn
I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got the script on Friday, went to the audition on Monday and got the part on Tuesday. I was shooting the pilot a week later. I didn't have time to be nervous - it happened so quickly.-Wentworth Miller
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.-Janis Karpinski