Best 660 quotes in «prison quotes» category

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.

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.

Guilt was its own prison.

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.

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

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

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

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

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.

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?

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!

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

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

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

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 survive in a Turkish prison, probably.

I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least.

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 died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.

I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.

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

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

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.

I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.

I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.

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

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 it works, it works,' Kat told him. 'And if it doesn't?' he asked. She looked at him. 'If it doesn't, then I've heard Monaco has the nicest prisons in all of Europe.' 'It does,' both Hamish and Angus said in unison. And with that, it was decided.

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

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

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 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.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

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

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

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

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

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