Top 1200 Prison System Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I don't know what goes on in prison. I've never been in trouble with the police in my life.

My worst memory is living through the 1989 riot in Huntingdon Prison.

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.

I have done prison time for 13 years without any conviction.

Take Milton Friedman, he sits at his desk pontificating about such bunk as the monetary system being the answer to our problems. The monetary system is a legal contrivance. Property, not money, is real wealth. It's physical, not legal.

I'm certain prison is pretty rough as it is but imagine if you were a murderer and a foodie!

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.

Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.

I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.

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

I met my fathers in prison, they too a part of a scene; digging death.

Not to sound cynical, but all you ever learn in prison is how to be a better criminal.

When you go to prison, you don't feel like a superstar. It really humbles you as a person.

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.

Most people named Willie are either in prison or on the armwrestling circuit.

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

I've got one younger brother who can do prison like his breakfast, but I'm not built for it.

Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.

Anytime you have a family member getting out of prison, there's always drama.

'Prison Break' on Netflix has generated a whole new generation of viewers.

I think what we're going to ultimately recognize is that capitalism was a transitional and immature system. It got the planet to be globalized and now something else has to emerge. We have to be the ones. We can't wait around. Nobody else is going to do it for us. We have to be the ones who create that new emerging system.

During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem.

One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand.

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.

Depression is a prison to which you have the key except you never think to look for it.

When I was released from prison, I didn't want to leave my house for the first three months.

Most people who work in prison earn money through contraband.

Typically, you get a year in prison for making a threat to assassinate the president.

Awakening is about liberating yourself from the prison that is the world of the mind and daring to be here as all that you are.

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all.

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.

Remember that the Unification Church rose, not in freedom, but from a prison, the pit of suffering.

Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.

When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times!

I escaped my destiny. The odds were that I would end up in prison, but I didn't.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

Many people live in a self-imposed prison and don't even know it.

Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.

I won't go back on my decision. I'm not afraid of prison, but there are even worse dangers.

Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.

In California, thieves have three choices: They can go to prison, Sacramento, or Washington D.C.

People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.

OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

It costs the same to send a person to prison or to Harvard. The difference is the curriculum.

I would prefer to get lashed rather than go to prison.

In prison we are their jailers On trial their judges Persecuted their punishers Dead their conquerors

I received more genuine religious stimulation in prison than in the seminary.

It is hard for us to admit we have a sin nature because we live in this system of checks and balances. If we get caught, we will be punished. But that doesn't make us good people; it only makes us subdued. Just think about the Congress and Senate and even the president. The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances. Nobody gets all the power. Everybody is watching everybody else. It is as if the founding fathers knew, intrinsically, that the soul of man, unwatched, is perverse.

Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.

The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.

The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.