Best 660 quotes in «prison quotes» category

Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.

Sadness puts my heart in a prison.

Scientists are the enemies of tradition , and tradition own all the prisons. - Victor Vigny

Security without liberty is called prison.

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.

Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison

That prison," I said with heartfelt sincerity, "Was absolutely the most awful thing that has happened to me in my entire life." I could tell by the way he looked at me that he thought my life had been filled with one awful thing after another.

Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.

Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.

That's all the freedom we canhope for - the freedom to choose our prison. [...]

That show, The Sopranos put HBO on the map. So there I was - and then there I wasn't. Too bad. The same thing happened to me on Prison Break: I got the role of the governor on that, and then a handful of episodes later, I hanged myself.

Sleep is a prison for a boy who has friends to meet.

Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control

Some people are like a defeated warrior: they accept the defeat, go to work, go back home, watch TV silently. That is like a prison. You can have a life sentence in prison and it's the same in cities.

Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards

Sometimes the longer you are inside a prison, the harder it is to fathom what is possible beyond its walls.

The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard.

The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind.

The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons.

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

The making of the movie and the routine of making the movie is a lot like being in a Spanish prison for five years on a marijuana breakdown.

The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars

The fact is that, in prison, you can't just go and be locked up and serve your time. That's not an option. You get locked up, and then you're going to go through hell and, if you're lucky, you'll come out somewhat of a human being, but you're probably going to be beyond traumatized, for the rest of your life. That's ridiculous!

The last place I would ever want to go is prison.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.

The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons.

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.

the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.

The reason Vladimir Putin released Pussy Riot, the Greenpeace activists who were kidnapped in international waters and kept in prison for two months, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia's best-known and longest-serving political prisoner, was because he finally started panicking and realized that he may not have anyone to take pictures with.

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 is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.

There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

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

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