Prison Quotes

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

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!

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

Security without liberty is called prison.

Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

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

A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

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

Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer.

Prison is not a place for humans. Period. It's just an animal house.

The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.

After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison.

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

Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.

Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.

Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.

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.

When you're in prison, you can't do anything about what's happening outside.

What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.

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

A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison.

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

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

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

Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations.

A single thought can revolutionize your life as it did mine. A single thought can make you rich or it can land you in prison for the rest of your life.

We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.

Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

Growth is a funny sort of concept. For example, our GNP increases every time we build a prison. Well, okay, it's growth in a sense.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

This thing of darkness I acknowlege mine. There is nothing more confining than the prison we don't know we are in.

You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.

The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.

Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.

I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me.

Dare to do something worth of exile and prison if you mean to be anybody. Virtue is praised and left to freeze. [Lat., Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum Si vis esse aliquis. Probitas laudatur et alget.]

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

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

'The prison' begins well before its doors. It begins as soon as you leave your house - and even before.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

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

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

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

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

I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.

One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.