Best 660 quotes in «prison quotes» category

The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.

the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.

There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

The reason Vladimir Putin released Pussy Riot, the Greenpeace activists who were kidnapped in international waters and kept in prison for two months, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia's best-known and longest-serving political prisoner, was because he finally started panicking and realized that he may not have anyone to take pictures with.

There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.

There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.

There is only one way out of the trap: that you don`t choose; neither this nor that - you simply don`t choose. You withdraw from choice and you become choiceless. Choicelessness is freedom. To choose is to choose a prison; to choose is to choose a bondage. To choose is wrong, to be choiceless is to be right.

The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release.

The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body

The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

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

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

The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison.

The world like our heads was meant to be escaped from, they are prisons world and head alike.

They [Federalist European Politicians] divide their time between court room, prison and debating chamber - giving a whole new meaning to the term 'conviction politician'.

They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.

The younger you are, the more likely you are to have grown up in a (mostly) lead-free environment, and that means you're less likely to have committed a felony or gotten sent to prison.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.

Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

This is illegal. If you don't let me out, you'll be arrested. I swear you will. You'll go to prison and be forced to have intimate relations with a man named Butch. Let. Me. Out.

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

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

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.

To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.

Tribes must be our homes, not our prisons.

Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

Vices are not crimes.

We are not in prison so we are free and happy? No. We're in a different kind of prison in this life. We have to confront it, and we have to liberate Istanbul and ourselves, as well.

Well I've always said that fame and fortune - the two things that one seems to go after when they go into show business was not at all what it was cracked up to be as far as I was concerned. I found fame to be somewhat of a prison. The more famous you were, the smaller the cell that you had to live in.

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.

We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

We made it,' he shouted. 'Not bad for a prison break, eh?' 'Good thinking Jake.

We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.