Best 660 quotes in «prison quotes» category

Better to build orphanages than prisons.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

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.]

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.

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

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

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

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.

Enlightenment is freedom, the thought of enlightenment is prison. The truth exists in the moment. If we´re anywhere else, seeking something outside of the moment, we´re in prison.

Guilt was its own prison.

Fear is the strongest prison and courage is the only way out!

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in.

For many, whether they go to prison or not is far less about the choices they make and far more about what kind of cage they're born into.

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. You know you're going to get it, but it's going to be rough.

Every crime destroys more Edens than our own

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.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

For example, if you are a blogger who wrote something about a local official and you're going to prison for that, you're a political prisoner. If you're a businessman who has refused to cede his business to the local official and you're going to prison for that, you're not a political prisoner. In that second category there are hundreds of thousands of people in Russia.

For me, it's all about being in a tiny room with little windows. It's almost like you have to be in a prison.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

Hate put me in prison. Love's gonna bust me out.

He had wanted so hard to Escape, to find the stars. And all he had found was a new prison.

Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good friend is someone who comes to hear your lectures.

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.

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

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 can do more good outside of prison... This country is worth dying for.

Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.

I'd never been a prison guard before or anything.

I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.

I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.

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

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.