Best 660 quotes in «prison quotes» category

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 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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Guilt was its own prison.

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

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

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?

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

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!

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.

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 now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.

I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it.

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.

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

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.

I don't think we can reduce the prison population now, so many of these people are damaged goods once they've spent much time in prison. It would have to be over a generation. But certainly, yeah, white collar crime.

If every crime victim had to have perfect judgment, we could empty our prisons.

I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows

I’d volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free.

If it is right to be legally married, it is right to be legally divorced ... To be deprived of a Divorce is like being shut up in prison because someone attempted to kill you. It is just as honorable to get out of matrimonial trouble legally, as to be freed from any other wrong.

If it doesn't make sense, you must find for the defense.

I feel like I’m living in a prison. There are so many things I may not experience. I cannot go swimming, can’t visit relatives, can’t get a job, can’t have a boyfriend. I see so much of life I cannot have. I am living in a veritable prison.

If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to prison because I will kill him.