Best 660 quotes in «prison quotes» category

The last place I would ever want to go is prison.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.

The making of the movie and the routine of making the movie is a lot like being in a Spanish prison for five years on a marijuana breakdown.

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

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

The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

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

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

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

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons.

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 a close relationship between flowers and convicts.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

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

Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.

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.

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

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

Tribes must be our homes, not our prisons.

Vices are not crimes.

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

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

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.