Top 1200 Prison Break Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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

Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobility.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

My ultimare goal is, without illusion and without sentimentality, merely by telling the truth as I see it, to break your heart. If I can break your heart and cause your awareness to expand to include another person's experience, even a fictional person's experience, and to inhabit for a moment their sorrow and suffering, then I think it expands us as people.

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain.

There is something that governments care for more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy.... Those of you who can break windows--break them. Those of you who can still further attack the secret idol of property, so as to make the Government realize that property is as greatly endangered by women's suffrage as it was by the Chartists of old--do so. And my last word is to the Government: I incite this meeting to rebellion!

Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.

The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.

Before my first novel, I was dating a woman who later went to prison for bashing a guy with a hammer.

It's best that I hide my real personality. I cannot tell you what it is because I don't want to go to prison.

For me, prison is a necessary step towards achieving the right to self-determination.

Saying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will unlock the prison door.

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

Filesharing in Sweden can't get you into prison, so there's nothing criminal about helping people to fileshare.

Why, when God's world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places?

A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.

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

This is a darker Lex too, because he's been in prison and he wants revenge. He's not playing around.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

In my mind, there was never a thought that I wasn't going to find a way to get myself out of prison.

When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it it was a very spiritual time for me.

If there was one senator who could truly empathize with being tortured in prison, it was John McCain.

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.

I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison.

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

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

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release.

It was a land of shadows and ice. Of gray. And grayer. And black. -The Unseelie prison of Aedan

Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

Your hands are like dogs, going to the same places they've been. You have to be careful when playing is no longer in the mind but in the fingers, going to happy places. You have to break them of their habits or you don't explore; you only play what is confident and pleasing. I'm learning to break those habits by playing instruments I know absolutely nothing about, like a bassoon or a waterphone.

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

I would like to say prison life at its very best and worst infinitely sucks.

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

We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.

Danbury wasn't a prison, it was a crime school. I went in with a Bachelor of marijuana, came out with a Doctorate of cocaine.

After six prison commitments, at the end of those, I was more broken than when I went into the system.

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

Prison make you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

I have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison.

When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.

An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.

My feeling is, if a dog is that hard up to break free, let it go. It's like a boyfriend who wants to break up. We all know the old adage "If you set someone free, and he never comes back, then he was never yours." I understand the main fear with setting dogs loose is they could get hit by a car, but so could an ex boyfriend. That's just a chance you have to take.

Letting people out of prison without professional staff to oversee their rehabilitation is irresponsible.

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

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

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

I think coming out, for me, is really about tearing down the prison wall.

If there's a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. The powers-that-be can break up any big thing they want. They can corrupt it or co-opt it from the inside, or they can attack it from the outside. But what are they going to do about 10 million little things? They break up two of them, and three more like them spring up!

You wonder why your government's completely broken? We lurch from deadline to deadline, and it's on purpose really. We do deadline to deadline because ... 'we've got to go. It's spring break, we're going to be late for spring break, and we've got to go, so we've got to finish this up before we go.'

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

Nobody is free… Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons.

Prison reform, peace, and a presidential pardon - just a portion of Kushner's portfolio.

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.

I lost years of my life to prison because of two-dimensional and misogynist stereotypes.

The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.