Best 660 quotes in «prison quotes» category

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 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 could survive in a Turkish prison, probably.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I'll hit anyone who's seriously threatening my life... that's what happened, and that's what sent me to prison.

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.

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 hate taking refugees. I guarantee you they are bad. That is why they are in prison right now. They are not going to be wonderful people who go on to work for the local milk people.

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

I hate liver, but I could imagine eating some with a little bit of ketchup. Like, a lot of ketchup. I could survive in a Turkish prison, probably.

I kept talking to my producers at Columbia about recording one of those [prison] shows. So we went into Folsom on February 11, 1968, and recorded a show live.

Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are paying for it all.

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.

I love when they show the really gay prisoner in prison shows. He's the cutest inside but you know on the street he would be the ugliest.

I mean, I was just one of the ones who got exposed, and because of the position I was in, where I was in my life, it went mainstream. A lot of people got out of it after my situation, not because I went to prison but because it was sad for them to see me go through something that was so pointless, that could have been avoided.

I'm certain prison is pretty rough as it is but imagine if you were a murderer and a foodie!

I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.

I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives.

I'm going to do the time and I am going to do it the right way

I'm feeling pretty good. A lot of people don't know this, but I am not currently in prison, which feels great.

I'm kind of a weirdo; I love prison movies and war movies.

I'm not fearful by nature, but I am vigilant. When you walk into a prison, it's important that a sixth sense kicks in.

I'm playing somebody who is a recovering drug addict who got out of prison. It takes place in 2 weeks-the 1st 2 weeks I'm out of prison.

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.

Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key.