Best 660 quotes in «prison quotes» category

I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.

I was actually grateful for being arrested, for the judge that promised me that I would go to prison if I didn't stay clean, because I listened to him and something clicked. Those two years when we were making album "Ultra" and I had to go back and forth to court to prove to the judge that I'd stayed clean, it gave me this time to suddenly realize, "Oh, I can do this, I can crawl my way back, I can get better. And I do want to be here.

I was already a wreck when I went in, and prison nearly destroyed what little was left of me. I was worse when I came out than I was when I went in, and was not positively changed in any way.

I was in prison and I was an atheist. I didn't believe in anything.

I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.

I was struck with a bolt of distilled horror like I have never known before. Far worse than suddenly finding yourself walking through a prison cafeteria wearing Daisy Duke shorts and a Jane Fonda headband.

I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had seen that I was considering it.

John Kerry gave the enemy for free what I and many of my comrades in North Vietnam in the prison camps took torture to avoid saying.

I went to prison, I paid my bill.

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.

I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.

I would like to say prison life at its very best and worst infinitely sucks.

Just having walked into a prison environment, sat there for two hours, the effect that it had on me. ... I couldn't imagine the effect it would have on a person 24 hours a day. So then I became more intrigued, and we began a correspondence, and I began visiting [Todd Willingham].

I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.

Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times!

Keeping my family out of prison best I can. That is success to me. I created that without selling records.

Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Let's say that you commit a crime, you get caught, you might get sent to prison. It's going to be bad. But if you get caught spying, you're literally hanged the next morning.

Marriage can either be a classroom where people become wiser and better, or a prison where people become resentful; and bitter.

Make not thyself the judge of any man.

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.

Martha Stewart is getting out of prison so today the terror alert was raised from orange to pesto.

Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces. The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush.

Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

My friends in prison were mostly women more like myself: not historical figures who I did not relate to as peers, but hookers and addicts.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any theoretical, scientific or moral prison.

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

My time in prison only deepened my resolve against apartheid. Even while I was in prison, I fought against it, teaching my cellmates about white supremacy and how to fight against it.

Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

Obviously this prison has been controversial ever since the first detainees arrived in Guantanamo more than 14 years ago.

No one is punished for free speech in Cuba. If free and inconvenient thoughts were a crime in our country, I would have been a good candidate for prison, with my advocacy for sexual self-determination. Those people are in prison because they are mercenaries paid by Washington.

Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.

Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of capital punishment, prison torture and punishment of man by man altogether.

Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.

Oh spare me, being stuck in your bedroom is not like prison. You don't have to worry about being gang-raped in your bedroom.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.

Our prison in Georgia is a very different place from this prison here in Berlin. The conditions there are inhuman.

One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics

One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.

One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.

Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.

Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys us that they don't do something else!