Inmates Quotes

Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.

There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer.

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

The inmates are ghosts whose dreams have been murdered.

I asked inmate in New York, Warden Fay at that time if, if it didn't make a better inmate out of the Negroes who accepted it and he said, "Yes." So I asked him then what was it about it that he considered to be so danger, and he, dangerous, and he pointed out that it was the cohesiveness that it produced among the inmates. They stuck together.

The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.

Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo.

I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden.

Hollywood-a place where the inmates are in charge of the asylum.

It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate.

[People] earn extra money [in prison] selling contraband, dope, and things of that sort to the inmates, and so that really it's an exploiter.

Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.

Changi became my university instead of my prison. Among the inmates there were experts in all walks of life - the high and the low roads. I studied and absorbed everything I could from physics to counterfeiting, but most of all I learned the art of surviving.

They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.

When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?

I started out in 1985, and I was Inmate #1 in every prison movie made from '85 to '93.

A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.

If the time should ever come when what is now called Science, thus famliarised to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to the aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man.

I would have been content with still playing Inmate #1. I worked on every prison movie made, from 1985 to 1991. I would go from movie to movie to movie.

Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.

The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.

The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.