Best 660 quotes in «prison quotes» category

If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.

If you do keep the faith and continue to be radical, very bad things can and do happen to you. At the very least you will be marginalized. Same if you are poor and strike out. Prison awaits you in the USA.

If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in.

I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally.

I hate taking refugees. I guarantee you they are bad. That is why they are in prison right now. They are not going to be wonderful people who go on to work for the local milk people.

I hate liver, but I could imagine eating some with a little bit of ketchup. Like, a lot of ketchup. I could survive in a Turkish prison, probably.

I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.

I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.

I mean, I was just one of the ones who got exposed, and because of the position I was in, where I was in my life, it went mainstream. A lot of people got out of it after my situation, not because I went to prison but because it was sad for them to see me go through something that was so pointless, that could have been avoided.

Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are paying for it all.

I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.

I'm certain prison is pretty rough as it is but imagine if you were a murderer and a foodie!

I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives.

I kept talking to my producers at Columbia about recording one of those [prison] shows. So we went into Folsom on February 11, 1968, and recorded a show live.

I'll hit anyone who's seriously threatening my life... that's what happened, and that's what sent me to prison.

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

I love when they show the really gay prisoner in prison shows. He's the cutest inside but you know on the street he would be the ugliest.

I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.

I'm feeling pretty good. A lot of people don't know this, but I am not currently in prison, which feels great.

I'm going to do the time and I am going to do it the right way

I'm kind of a weirdo; I love prison movies and war movies.

Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

I'm not fearful by nature, but I am vigilant. When you walk into a prison, it's important that a sixth sense kicks in.

I'm playing somebody who is a recovering drug addict who got out of prison. It takes place in 2 weeks-the 1st 2 weeks I'm out of prison.

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.

In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

I realized that I had been living a great part of my life like an ostrich, with my head stuck in the sand. Now I see that I was just prancing around my magical circle while the walls of my prison were being erected by other people.

In a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. Never let fear prevent you from doing right.

Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up.

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.

In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of society, nor the lowest. I'm a woman who is a lawyer, who is a professor at a university, who won the Nobel Peace Prize. At the same time, I cook. And even when I'm about to go to prison, one of the first things I do is to make enough food and put it in the fridge for my family.

In prison we are their jailers On trial their judges Persecuted their punishers Dead their conquerors

In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.

I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.

In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key.

In Russia one can be as pure as can be and still lose everything in a flash and end up in prison.

In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.

I only hope those rumors I hear about what goes on in prison are greatly exaggerated.

I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.

Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?

I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy. You can only punish. I warn you that a wicked law, like cholera, destroys everyone it touches - its upholders as well as its defiers.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

It appears that the murder rate inside prisons is ten times higher than that outside prisons. It must be due to all those Kalashnikov rifles that are issued to prisoners upon their incarceration.

I think we raised awareness of spice and what it's doing to people in prison. The media is also doing a good job of highlighting how dangerous it is as well, so maybe we can add to that.

It seems to be the sense that once you throw guys in prison they're not going to come out. No, they're going to come out and, you know, what kind of beast have you created from that process?

It is in prison ... that one becomes a real revolutionary.

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.