Best 660 quotes in «prison quotes» category

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

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?

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!

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

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.

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

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 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 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 like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.

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