Best 660 quotes in «prison quotes» category

It is in prison ... that one becomes a real revolutionary.

I think we raised awareness of spice and what it's doing to people in prison. The media is also doing a good job of highlighting how dangerous it is as well, so maybe we can add to that.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

It turns out Dimitri had a friend, who had a friend, and despite the best security in the Moroi world, we managed to get into the Court's prison facilities.

It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear. But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten the reservations were meant to be death camps.

It seems to be the sense that once you throw guys in prison they're not going to come out. No, they're going to come out and, you know, what kind of beast have you created from that process?

It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.

It was in prison that we found the hope of salvation for the Communists. It was there that we developed a sense of responsibility toward them. It was in being tortured by them that we learned to love them.

It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums and other tributes to all of our collective failures. It is time that we start building living monuments to hope and possibility.

I've had some confrontations after I got out of prison and I'm proud of the fact that I dealt with them differently.

It would serve the Americans right if we emptied the prisons and let the subversives take power. They'd soon show Washington just how much they appreciate good old American values.

I was in prison and I was an atheist. I didn't believe in anything.

I was actually grateful for being arrested, for the judge that promised me that I would go to prison if I didn't stay clean, because I listened to him and something clicked. Those two years when we were making album "Ultra" and I had to go back and forth to court to prove to the judge that I'd stayed clean, it gave me this time to suddenly realize, "Oh, I can do this, I can crawl my way back, I can get better. And I do want to be here.

I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.

I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had seen that I was considering it.

I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.

I was already a wreck when I went in, and prison nearly destroyed what little was left of me. I was worse when I came out than I was when I went in, and was not positively changed in any way.

I was struck with a bolt of distilled horror like I have never known before. Far worse than suddenly finding yourself walking through a prison cafeteria wearing Daisy Duke shorts and a Jane Fonda headband.

Keeping my family out of prison best I can. That is success to me. I created that without selling records.

I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.

I would like to say prison life at its very best and worst infinitely sucks.

John Kerry gave the enemy for free what I and many of my comrades in North Vietnam in the prison camps took torture to avoid saying.

I went to prison, I paid my bill.

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.

I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.

Just having walked into a prison environment, sat there for two hours, the effect that it had on me. ... I couldn't imagine the effect it would have on a person 24 hours a day. So then I became more intrigued, and we began a correspondence, and I began visiting [Todd Willingham].

Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times!

Let's say that you commit a crime, you get caught, you might get sent to prison. It's going to be bad. But if you get caught spying, you're literally hanged the next morning.

Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any theoretical, scientific or moral prison.

Make not thyself the judge of any man.

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.

Marriage can either be a classroom where people become wiser and better, or a prison where people become resentful; and bitter.

Martha Stewart is getting out of prison so today the terror alert was raised from orange to pesto.

Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

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

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.

My friends in prison were mostly women more like myself: not historical figures who I did not relate to as peers, but hookers and addicts.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.