Top 1200 Prison Guards Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society.

Are you searching for your soul? Then come out of your own prison.

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

People are calling on me to put corrupt people into prison. Where do you start?

I prefer a prison full of criminals than a graveyard full of innocent people.

I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison, though I believe he's innocent.

I've taught in prison; I've counseled people... I've been arrested; I've been to the psychiatrist.

Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in.

India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

I have asked James Shabazz, I've asked other people who are members of the OAAU, Herman Ferguson and others, what led to that disastrous decision [that the guards didn't carry weapons]? James Shabazz said to me with a shrug, you just didn't know Malcolm. Malcolm was adamant, and that whatever Malcolm wanted, that's what we just did.

I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.

I like the community of acting better than the prison of writing. I like sets.

All during that prison time I really lived by prayer. Be in prayer always, we're told, and back then I was.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.)

Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.

Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.

The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few anchorage, and nobody can go ashore unnoticed by the guards. Its winter is mild because it is enclosed by a range of mountains which keeps out the fierce temperature; its summer is unequal. The open sea is very pleasant and it has a view of a beautiful bay.

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

I have been to Guantanamo. It's a model prison. Is it ideal? No. But we live in a very un-ideal world.

You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it.

How many prison years in the years since Christ!

Well yet, this life such as it is, yet we love it, and loath we are to end it; and if it be in hazard by the law, what running, riding, posting, suing, bribing, and if all will not serve, what breaking prison is there for it!

When I finished the role of Christ, I felt as though I'd been let out on parole. A man who has served 18 months isn't eager to go back to prison.

You have opened up the prison gates of my womanhood. And all the passion that was unsatisfied in for me so many years, leaped into a wild reckless storm boundless as the sea.

There are many positive values that come with a Muslim upbringing. But when religion becomes about rules and hierarchies, when it starts to feel like a prison, I'm not interested.

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

I'm very resourceful. I'd be good in prison. I'd be good in a shipwreck. I'd make a great hostage.

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

What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison.

They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.

I saw worse stuff inside prison than I ever saw in the streets.

In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.

The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.

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

Without turning prison life into something more meaningful, prisoners are more likely to reoffend.

Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get.

Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.

The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

Prison is not meant to be comfortable. It's not meant to be somewhere anyone would ever want to go back to.

People have no clue that they’re in prison, they don’t know that there is an ego, they don’t know the distinction.

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

Are you ready to step out of the prison of memory and conditioned responses into the experience of freedom? If so, then observe your addictive behaviors without judgment.

Not only are mandatory minimum laws overly punitive and discriminatory, but they're also expensive. Prison is not free. Governments, and ultimately taxpayers, bear the costs.

I mean, hunger strike is almost a ritual in a Russian prison colony. It actually has been going back to Soviet times. It's a way of protesting.

When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.

I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.

Two men looked out from prison bars, One saw the mud, the other saw stars.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

One thing is to escape from prison, but what the Texas 7 did that night crossed the line they should have never crossed.

Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed.

Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.

The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body

I knew early on that I was going to prison for the rest of my life and that there was nothing that no one was going to be able to do to help me.

When I was in prison, a Colombian drug lord, offered me $5 million in cash to manipulate a computer system so that he would be released. I turned him down.

A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.

I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.

I'm almost positive I have some type of PTSD. Almost a decade of my life was consumed by the prison system.