Top 1200 Prison Quotes & Sayings - Page 15
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Last updated on December 5, 2024.
I served my time and came out of prison when I was just 26 and have worked with the government for 37 years. But people only remember me for what I did before that.
Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.
Prison is not meant to be comfortable. It's not meant to be somewhere anyone would ever want to go back to.
There was a prison uprising at Alcatraz, and I drove the Marines over there in a landing craft to quell the riot. I am the only serviceman I know with an American Theatre ribbon.
India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.
Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.
I went to Rikers one time to do 'Third Watch,' and I remember thinking, 'Wow, this is a scary place.' We were using a section of the prison where half of it was still populated by inmates.
One thing is to escape from prison, but what the Texas 7 did that night crossed the line they should have never crossed.
The benefits of prison education go beyond lowering recidivism rates and increasing post-release employment. It can also rekindle a sense of purpose and confidence.
A lot of people that get out of prison have anti-social personality disorder, which makes them promiscuous and erratic, and they can't form ordinary relationships.
It hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world’s largest open-air prison.
Without turning prison life into something more meaningful, prisoners are more likely to reoffend.
Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.
I think at some point I would like to meet my dad. He's in prison in the U.S. for life, so it's about figuring out where he is stationed and making time to see him.
Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.
I'm almost positive I have some type of PTSD. Almost a decade of my life was consumed by the prison system.
For the offenders completing these short sentences whose lives are destabilised, and for society which incurs a heavy financial and social cost, prison simply isn't working.
In offering deals on immigration, infrastructure, and prison reform, President Trump has demonstrated that he is ready for compromise. But will Democrats take up his offer?
All of a sudden, I don't have a leg. I'm in a wheelchair. I have half a foot; I can't even walk to the bathroom. I'm in a bed, I can't move, and I felt like those four walls were my prison.
It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.)
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
I always knew I'd get caught sooner or later. And I knew I would end up going to prison.
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our
separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.
Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get.
You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it.
He had wanted so hard to Escape, to find the stars. And all he had found was a new prison.
In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.
Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
Two men looked out from prison bars,
One saw the mud, the other saw stars.
If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to prison because I will kill him.
I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.
How many prison years in the years since Christ!
Facebook seems to think that it would be liberating if everyone's News Feed could be personalized so that people see only and exactly what they want. Don't believe it. That's a prison.
People have no clue that they’re in prison, they don’t know that there is an ego, they don’t know the distinction.
What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison.
We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.
To go to prison because of your convictions and be prepared to suffer for what you believe in, is something worthwhile. It is an achievement for a man to do his duty on earth irrespective of the consequences.
The man who has received this great deliverance is no longer a convict, painfully observing all prison rules with the hope of shortening his sentence, but a child in the home of God.
One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics.
Some go to prison for stealing, and others for believing that a better system can be provided and maintained than one that makes it necessary for a man to steal in order to live.
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
Perhaps some day, modern people will learn that mystery is not the prison of the mind of people, it is their home.
Humility does not live in the prison of illusion that says that this world is a dark and terrible place. Those perceptions are phantoms; everything is eternity, God, divine.
Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed.
In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.
I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society.
Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to our son in prison in 2005.
In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are constantly reminded of their failures and limited by the energies of another person. It is rife with judgment and blame.
There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a father's love for his child.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
One of the frustrations of prison life, which is also one of its intended consequences, is that the prisoner is made ineffective. He is unable to be of much use. The aim is to render him powerless.
One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics
When I went to prison, for three years I didn't say a word to another human being until, going into the fourth year, when I realized, 'You know what, I have to find a way to live.'
I'm kind of a weirdo; I love prison movies and war movies.
The first thing I did that was at all in the public eye, other than on stage, was 'Oz,' in which I played the head of the Aryan Brotherhood in a maximum-security prison.
I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.
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.
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
There are two phone calls parents don't ever want to get from their children. No. 1 is, 'I'm in prison. Come fetch me.' And No. 2 is, 'I've written a novel... and it's set in your hometown.'
