Best 660 quotes in «prison quotes» category

Fear is the strongest prison and courage is the only way out!

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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%.

For example, if you are a blogger who wrote something about a local official and you're going to prison for that, you're a political prisoner. If you're a businessman who has refused to cede his business to the local official and you're going to prison for that, you're not a political prisoner. In that second category there are hundreds of thousands of people in Russia.

Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in.

For many, whether they go to prison or not is far less about the choices they make and far more about what kind of cage they're born into.

For me, it's all about being in a tiny room with little windows. It's almost like you have to be in a prison.

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

Hate put me in prison. Love's gonna bust me out.

Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. You know you're going to get it, but it's going to be rough.

Guilt was its own prison.

Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good friend is someone who comes to hear your lectures.

He had wanted so hard to Escape, to find the stars. And all he had found was a new prison.

How can one not succumb and allow one's courage to fail when everything is shut tight, when all meaningful things are walled up, and when you constantly knock against bricks, as against the walls of a prison?

Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.

I am at a crossroads; I have always been against armed opposition... I have chosen civil disobedience. But I will apologize to my people if there are funerals coming out of prisons. I will criticize myself and I won't be the mayor of Diyarbakir.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!

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

I could never fear a God who kept a hell prison-house. No, not though he flung me there because I refused. There is a power stronger than such a one; and it is possible to walk unscathed even in the burning furnace.

I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.

I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it.

I can do more good outside of prison... This country is worth dying for.

I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least.

I could survive in a Turkish prison, probably.

I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.

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

I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.

I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.

I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.

I'd never been a prison guard before or anything.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

I don't think we can reduce the prison population now, so many of these people are damaged goods once they've spent much time in prison. It would have to be over a generation. But certainly, yeah, white collar crime.

I feel like I’m living in a prison. There are so many things I may not experience. I cannot go swimming, can’t visit relatives, can’t get a job, can’t have a boyfriend. I see so much of life I cannot have. I am living in a veritable prison.

I’d volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free.

If it is right to be legally married, it is right to be legally divorced ... To be deprived of a Divorce is like being shut up in prison because someone attempted to kill you. It is just as honorable to get out of matrimonial trouble legally, as to be freed from any other wrong.

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

I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows

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

If it works, it works,' Kat told him. 'And if it doesn't?' he asked. She looked at him. 'If it doesn't, then I've heard Monaco has the nicest prisons in all of Europe.' 'It does,' both Hamish and Angus said in unison. And with that, it was decided.

If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to prison because I will kill him.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

If you do keep the faith and continue to be radical, very bad things can and do happen to you. At the very least you will be marginalized. Same if you are poor and strike out. Prison awaits you in the USA.

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.

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.

I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?

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