Top 1200 Prison Walls Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

We make no apology for people who should be in prison being in prison.

Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.

Put the walls up. Get the better walls. There's no reason the army website should be hacked.

Our system never treated the failure of prison as a reason not to try more prison.

It's quiet for a while, and then Rowan says; "We could talk now. We're alone out here. No walls." "There are always walls." I say.

I'm actually even thinking of stealing the Walls of Jericho and turning in into the Walls of Miz.

The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy.

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You don't need a lot of credentials to be prison guard in a federal prison. And, you know, you give them a set of keys and a weapon, and they're in power.

I grew up in Huntsville, which is a main prison town. It's crazy. The conditions are so bad in prison, often, for the inmates.

I grew up in a family where my brother was in prison. My father was in prison.

Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.

It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.

America should be ashamed to say they have the best justice system in the world when, every day, race plays a part in who goes to prison, who don't go to prison.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

He looked at the pain and he set himself apart from it. He saw it, examined it, identified it, corralled it. He isolated it. He challenged it. You against me? Dream on, pal. He built borders for it. Then walls. He built walls and forced the pain behind them and then he moved the walls inward, compressing the pain, crushing it, boxing it in, limiting it, beating it.

We are not in prison so we are free and happy? No. We're in a different kind of prison in this life. We have to confront it, and we have to liberate Istanbul and ourselves, as well.

I continue to feel it was solidarity in the prison that made living in prison a different kind of community, and I began a life of service.

When I was young I was constantly reading walls; I took in everything written on walls, from love messages to political messages. It was my hobby and became my art.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

To control a people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And when your conqueror makes you ashamed of your culture and your history, he needs no prison walls and no chains to hold you.

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.

If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls.

Children cannot bounce off the walls if we take away the walls.

Son, we live in a world that has walls and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You!?

People tend to consider beig vulnerable a bad thing. It's not. Vulnerability reminds us that we're human. It keeps us open to giving and receiving love. Without at least a little, we can become someone living n a prison of our own making, where the walls are so thick that no one can get in or out.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

The war on drugs has been the engine of mass incarceration. Drug convictions alone constituted about two-thirds of the increase in the federal prison population and more than half of the increase in the state prison population between 1985 and 2000, the period of our prison system's most dramatic expansion.

Being away with a national side at a tournament can be hard - you train, go back to your hotel, and often, you sit in your room, watching TV or speaking to people at home. If there's no communal area, it can feel like being in prison, staring at the same four walls all the time.

When we begin to build walls of prejudice, hatred, pride, and self-indulgence around ourselves, we are more surely imprisoned than any prisoner behind concrete walls and iron bars.

We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.

I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.

All of us have not been to a natural prison, but everybody in here has had a spiritual prison.

She's like a prisoner inside stone walls, and every day the walls get a little thicker, the doorways a little narrower.

In truth the prison, unto which we doom Ourselves, no prison is.

In the 20th century, we built a lot of walls - we endlessly tried to build walls between us and people we perceived, correctly or incorrect, as our enemies. In the 21st century, because of the advent of networks, the free movement of goods and people across the globe, we need to build security by building bridges instead of building walls.

Between 1995 and 2005, the prison population grew by 30 percent, meaning an additional half million criminals were behind bars, rather than lurking in dark alleys with switchblades. You can well imagine liberals' surprise when the crime rate went down as more criminals were put in prison. The New York Times was reduced to running querulous articles with headlines like Number in Prison Grows Despite Crime Reduction and As Crime Rate Drops, the Prison Rate Rises and the Debate Rages.

Countless candles dribbled with hot wax, and their flames, like little flags, fluttered in the unchartered currents of air. Thousands of lamps, naked, or shuttered behind coloured glass, burned with their glows of purple, amber, grass-green, blue, blood red and even grey. The walls of Gormenghast were like the walls of paradise or like the walls of an inferno. The colours were devilish or angelical according to the colour of the mind that watched them. They swam, those walls, with the hues of hell, with the tints of Zion. The breasts of the plumaged seraphim; the scales of Satan.

We can understand each other with music without words - and that's so important in these times when walls are built. In music, there are no walls.

You can sail in the desert with a ship of fools. You can smuggle in Moses and his book of rules. But you can't take a mother and give her back her son. What kind of freedom is bought with a gun? People like to build their prison walls when they're afraid to look inside... a thousand points of light are the muzzle flashes in the night. And the freedoms you profess to hold won't bring the dead back from the cold.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.

I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.

What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself.

During the '80s I wrote Memoirs from the Women's Prison. This is one of my most important books. It came out in Arabic in '83. About my experience in prison.

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: "Even if you put me in prison, I will keep on writing in the language which made you put me in prison."

At fourteen, my sister sailed away from me into a place I’d never been. In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood, in the walls of hers there were windows.

People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental.

Our prison in Georgia is a very different place from this prison here in Berlin. The conditions there are inhuman.

In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls.

'The Karate Teen' was great, where John Cena kicked me through four walls, or five walls. It was amazing how the film unit put that together. They literally strapped me to a chair and dragged me through five different set walls.

Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

No, I didn't hear about 'Live Aid.' I was in prison, and we were not allowed newspapers in prison.

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.