Best 660 quotes in «prison quotes» category

To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

Tribes must be our homes, not our prisons.

Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.

Vices are not crimes.

we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system.

Typically, you get a year in prison for making a threat to assassinate the president.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

Well I've always said that fame and fortune - the two things that one seems to go after when they go into show business was not at all what it was cracked up to be as far as I was concerned. I found fame to be somewhat of a prison. The more famous you were, the smaller the cell that you had to live in.

We are not in prison so we are free and happy? No. We're in a different kind of prison in this life. We have to confront it, and we have to liberate Istanbul and ourselves, as well.

We made it,' he shouted. 'Not bad for a prison break, eh?' 'Good thinking Jake.

We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.

We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.

What I'm really trying to say is that I believed an armed insurrection could work. After I was shot and went to prison, that ended that illusion. I had time to think.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.

We need to have more second chance programs. I'm glad that we're ending private prisons in the federal system; I want to see them ended in the state system.

When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself.

When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.

When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?

When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it it was a very spiritual time for me.

When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.

When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness into freedom.

When you live your whole life in a prison freedom can be so dull

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

When you're working with a script and you have three pages for that day, you have to shoot that. It can become sort of like a prison, because by the time you've shot what you need to shoot, you don't really have time to think or shoot anything else.

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

While I was in prison, I was indulging in all types of vice, right within the prison. And I never was ostracized as much by the penal authorities while I was participating in all of the evils of the prison, as they tried to ostracize me after I became a Muslim.

Yeah, I've gotten a few letters from prison.

You know you've lived in LA to long when what you fear most about prison is a lack of organic produce.

Your fears are a kind of prison that confines you within a limited range of action. The less you fear, the more power you will have and the more fully you will live.

Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.

You might be a redneck if you consider your license plate personalized because your dad made it in prison.

You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.

Your room is not your prison. You are.

You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

All the studies and all the research in the field of criminology affirm that prison education is the least expensive and most effective solution to overcrowding and strain on the budget caused by recevidism.

Am intrat în închisoare orb, cu vagi străfulgerări autogene ale beznei, care despică întunericul fără a-l risipi, şi ies cu ochii deschişi. Am intrat răsfăţat, răzgâiat. Ies vindecat de fasoane, nazuri, ifose. Am intrat nemulţumit. Ies cunoscând fericirea. Am intrat nervos, supărăcios, sensibil la fleacuri. Ies nepăsător. Soarele şi viaţa îmi spuneau puţin. Acum ştiu să gust felioara de pâine cât de mică. Ies admirând mai presus de orice curajul, demnitatea, onoarea, eroismul. Ies împăcat. Cu cei cărora le-am greşit, cu prietenii şi duşmanii mei, ba şi cu mine însumi".

You shouldn't have a profit motivation to fill prison cells with young Americans.

7.3 million people currently under correctional control, only 1.6 million are in prison. This case system extends far beyond prison walls and governs millions of people who are on probation and parole, primarily for nonviolent offenses. They have been swept into the system, branded criminals or felons, and ushered into a permanent second class status- acquiring records that will follow them for life.

Aberdeenshire’s Peterhead jail housed the hardest, badest, meanest motherfucker prisoners in the Scottish prison system. So no one was surprised when the pressure pot jail finally erupted in to violence that has not been seen or equalled since.

Abolition is not some disstant future but something we create in every moment when we say no to the traps of empire and yes to the nourishing possibilities dreamed of and practiced by our ancestors and friends. Every time we insist on accessible and affirming health care, safe and quality education, meaningful and secure employment, loving and healing relationships, and being our full and whole selves, we are doing abolition. Abolition is about breaking down things that oppress and building up things that nourish. Abolition is the practice of transformation in the here and now and the ever after.

Addiction puts you in a prison where the locks are on the inside. Only you hold the keys to set yourself free.

A few shackles and bars and this place'd be forced to call itself a prison!

Afraid even to look at the sky The birds of cage do seldom fly

After a week he was moved to a different wing and into a shared six-by-eight with a grizzled old con called Alf. He had faded tattoos that stained most of the visible skin on his hands, arms and neck a dull blue, sharp eyes and a thick beard that made his mouth look like an axe wound on a bear.