Best 660 quotes in «prison quotes» category

Your belief is mostly your prison! To discover the world outside your prison, you must first realize the walls surrounding you! Otherwise you shall continue being stuck in the prison of childish tales and fallacious illusions!

You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't be The familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skin Your head's under water when you learned to swim On a road to hell, congratulations, you're free...

You're still in prison if you do nothing better in freedom.

You’re scaring the dog,” Trish pointed out. She rarely called me by name. They do that in prisoner of war camps, I’ve heard. Depersonalization.

Your eyes were the bait luring me into your world. Your kiss was the trap door keeping me prisoner there.

You spend a lot of time thinking about how awful the prison is rather than envisioning your future.

You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of other people's opinions of you.

A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name, Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame, A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb Hourly inters poor mortals in its tomb; By ev'ry plague and ev'ry ill possess'd, Ev'n purgatory itself to thee 's a jest.

You will notice that I have not written about the horrors of prison life, or the conditions, hardships, treatment and so forth, because men reading this book who have been to jail will be bored to tears and people who haven't been to jail can bloody well come in here and find out for themselves.

A golf course is for golf. A tennis court is for tennis. A prison camp is for escaping.

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.

And please, please, lets us put mental health back on the top of our national agenda, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

Are there any good guys on 'Prison Break?' I suppose there might be. I can't honestly say whether I'm a good guy or a bad guy or I'm a good guy in wolf's clothing or sheep's clothing.

A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals.

A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.

A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

Akbar Ganji was in prison for six years, and that was it...for six years, and it was finished. Of course the Iranian government could make up some stories and accuse him of some other things, but the international support didn't let the government do that.

A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.

American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.

And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.

A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.

Army Specialist Bradley Manning deserves a medal, not prison.

A secret is a kind of promise.... It can also be a prison.

A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

A single thought can revolutionize your life as it did mine. A single thought can make you rich or it can land you in prison for the rest of your life.

A society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

Behind every great man in prison is another great man in prison.

Back to prison. Maybe if you fake a heart attack, I can make a break for it. (Rose Hathaway says to Lissa Dragomir)

But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.

Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.

Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!

Better to build orphanages than prisons.

Bridget did the only thing she could do in this situation that wouldn't end with her doing a life stint in prison. She flipped the woman off. With both hands.

Dare to do something worth of exile and prison if you mean to be anybody. Virtue is praised and left to freeze. [Lat., Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum Si vis esse aliquis. Probitas laudatur et alget.]

Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.

Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.

Chelsea Manning got thirty-five years in prison, while I'm still free.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?

During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem.

During the '80s I wrote Memoirs from the Women's Prison. This is one of my most important books. It came out in Arabic in '83. About my experience in prison.

During the Boom Years, it was so easy to lose sight of basic values. For example, there was lots of nonsense said and written about the so-called "New Economy." Some people said all economic laws have been overturned! Then all the problems developed. Corporations were heavily fined for illegalities. Many of their senior-level executives were indicted, convicted, and sent to prison.

Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their slavery... The great thing about it is equality... Slaves are bound to be equal.