Best 660 quotes in «prison quotes» category

Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.

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

Prison is like high school with knives.

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

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

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

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.

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.

"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.

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.

Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

Sadness puts my heart in a prison.

Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.

Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards

Scientists are the enemies of tradition , and tradition own all the prisons. - Victor Vigny

Security without liberty is called prison.

She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.

Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison

Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control

Sometimes the longer you are inside a prison, the harder it is to fathom what is possible beyond its walls.

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

Sleep is a prison for a boy who has friends to meet.

Some people are like a defeated warrior: they accept the defeat, go to work, go back home, watch TV silently. That is like a prison. You can have a life sentence in prison and it's the same in cities.

Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.

Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.

The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

That's all the freedom we canhope for - the freedom to choose our prison. [...]

That show, The Sopranos put HBO on the map. So there I was - and then there I wasn't. Too bad. The same thing happened to me on Prison Break: I got the role of the governor on that, and then a handful of episodes later, I hanged myself.

That prison," I said with heartfelt sincerity, "Was absolutely the most awful thing that has happened to me in my entire life." I could tell by the way he looked at me that he thought my life had been filled with one awful thing after another.

The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard.

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind.

The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.