Best 660 quotes in «prison quotes» category

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

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.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

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

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

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

Better to build orphanages than prisons.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.]

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

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 crime destroys more Edens than our own

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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.

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%.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Guilt was its own prison.

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

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

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

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

Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.

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.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!

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

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

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 could survive in a Turkish prison, probably.

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?