Best 660 quotes in «prison quotes» category

There is only one way out of the trap: that you don`t choose; neither this nor that - you simply don`t choose. You withdraw from choice and you become choiceless. Choicelessness is freedom. To choose is to choose a prison; to choose is to choose a bondage. To choose is wrong, to be choiceless is to be right.

There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.

The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body

The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.

The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release.

The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

They [Federalist European Politicians] divide their time between court room, prison and debating chamber - giving a whole new meaning to the term 'conviction politician'.

They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.

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.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

The world like our heads was meant to be escaped from, they are prisons world and head alike.

The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

The younger you are, the more likely you are to have grown up in a (mostly) lead-free environment, and that means you're less likely to have committed a felony or gotten sent to prison.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.

Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

This is a darker Lex too, because he's been in prison and he wants revenge. He's not playing around.

This is illegal. If you don't let me out, you'll be arrested. I swear you will. You'll go to prison and be forced to have intimate relations with a man named Butch. Let. Me. Out.

Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Vices are not crimes.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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 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