Best 660 quotes in «prison quotes» category

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

My time in prison only deepened my resolve against apartheid. Even while I was in prison, I fought against it, teaching my cellmates about white supremacy and how to fight against it.

Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces. The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

No one is punished for free speech in Cuba. If free and inconvenient thoughts were a crime in our country, I would have been a good candidate for prison, with my advocacy for sexual self-determination. Those people are in prison because they are mercenaries paid by Washington.

Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.

Obviously this prison has been controversial ever since the first detainees arrived in Guantanamo more than 14 years ago.

Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.

Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of capital punishment, prison torture and punishment of man by man altogether.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics

One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.

Oh spare me, being stuck in your bedroom is not like prison. You don't have to worry about being gang-raped in your bedroom.

One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.

One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.

Our prison in Georgia is a very different place from this prison here in Berlin. The conditions there are inhuman.

Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.

Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few hardened prisoners are more or less surreptitiously continuing their real vocations.

Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys us that they don't do something else!

People behave badly and people are in prison and people are on death row, and there are no excuses for everybody's behavior, but most people are coming from abuse.

Pardon ever follows sincere repentence.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

Prison is like high school with knives.

Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion

Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the principal form of punishment in a capitalist society.

Prison officials have been more concerned about sparing the sensitivities of executioners and witnesses than protecting the condemned prisoner from pain. They are more concerned with appearances than with the reality.

Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.

Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.

Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.

Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

Prisons where people can't even work is the worst punishment you can think of. And I don't think we should put all convicts in such facilities where people are deprived of their freedom.

Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch.

"Prison Break" has been a really great experience because of the writers. I think that in television, you can have great directors, really good actors, but if it's not on the page... I think a series lives and dies in writing.

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

Prison is, simply put, the bottom rung of the welfare ladder.

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

Prisons are the universities of the opposition.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.