Top 1200 Prison Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison.
We will not put our sons in prison for political membership or resisting occupation, because occupation is the reason for the problem.
Thousands of people go to jail, go to prison, every year without even meeting with an attorney.
As the hart desires the spring of living water, so my soul desires to leave the prison of this dark body and see You in truth.
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
None of my peers avoided prison. None of 'em.
It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme.
Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.
We're living in an age where new technology offers gigantic upsides - artificial intelligence has the potential to diagnose cancer, catch serial killers and reduce prison populations.
I was literally living on the edge of life, to the point where I didn't know what was going to happen, not caring, taking chances and finally landing in prison and once there, all my lines were cut.
A house though otherwise beautiful, yet if it hath no garden belonging to it, is more like a prison than a house.
Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars.
They [Federalist European Politicians] divide their time between court room, prison and debating chamber - giving a whole new meaning to the term 'conviction politician'.
Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on.
It's difficult to seek other people's love. It's deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.
Some teachers should be put in prison for the way they either take advantage of women in their classes or destroy fragile egos. Be careful who you ask to help you when you're in the arts.
God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers--he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman searching for coins, a father waiting for his son.
Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender.
When I was in prison, a lot of my friends blew me away. But Stephen Fry wrote to me. It was very humbling.
Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace
When you're going off to prison for the rest of your life, a lot of people do feel the need to explain themselves to all the people they have known.
It's so important to raise people to grow up to be who they are and not be forced to be who they're not. What an awful thing to do to people - it's like being in prison.
I believe, and I may be wrong, the system sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Prison is supposed to rehabilitate, but they don't do that in a lot of cases.
Mandela did go to prison, and he went in there as a burning revolutionary. But look what came out. Mandela let us down.
Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.
That's all the freedom we canhope for - the freedom to choose our prison. [...]
The costs of running a prison system as large as Arkansas' are significant, and the system's failures can make things worse.
What would happen if we financed somebody in the U.S. to destabilize the government of George W. Bush? They would go to prison, certainly.
I got rounded up by the police in Quito as I didn't have my passport with me. I was in prison for a night, which was pretty frightening, made more so when one of my male companions started crying.
People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.
I was certainly naïve about the judicial system in America. There's a lot of people who are in prison who are innocent. The system is very flawed.
One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten.
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
The generational cycle of people returning to prison has enormous, negative impacts on all Americans, especially the family members of incarcerated people.
I've made enough jokes about Iran's leadership that I'm sure if I showed up that I would get a nice escort - to the main prison - and then I could do a show there.
The world is a philosophical prison and Man is the philosophical prisoner.
Restoring a person's ability to achieve success when they leave the prison walls promotes public safety, builds our economy and, most importantly, is the right thing to do.
Hard to imagine 40 years ago people could be convicted of a crime, fined, sent to prison for using the most common forms of birth control.
Let's face it: the War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well intentioned... but it sent millions of kids to prison, gave them felonies oftentimes when they had no violent crimes.
It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.
I hated women before I went to prison. I always felt like women were trying to tear each other down.
The national laws of the five regions of India prescribe no cangue, beatings or prison. Those who are guilty are fined in accordance with the degree of the offence committed. There is no capital punishment.
In the Averoff prison hospital I saw men who had had the bones in their feet broken by the severity of the torture.
After I won but then lost my world title I ended up with no money. Then my dad died in prison.
You might be a redneck if you consider your license plate personalized because your dad made it in prison.
I've ended up in prison a number of times, once in Cambodia, once in Cuba - for hours rather than days.
There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a decade before the civil war began.
I have been shown in darkness, light, and have learned that even in prison, one can be free. I am grateful. I have come to see that there is good in every situation, sometimes we just have to look for it.
Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.
If everyone charged with crimes suddenly exercised his constitutional rights, there would not be enough judges, lawyers, or prison cells to deal with the ensuing tsunami of litigation.
I know [Arthur Koestler] fought in the Spanish Civil War. He was in prison, I think, in Spain and in Russia. He came to the United States; that's when I saw him in the mid-1940s.
If you're drunk please don't drive. If you're on shrooms please don't think Walmart's a prison for bad clothing that needs help escaping.
...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.
I spent several years in a north Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States?
For our past can be a prison we are locked in permanently, or it can be the key to our freedom if we glean the lessons from it and deal with it directly.
I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks.
I spent five and a half years in prison. The worst part was coming home and finding out Green Acres had been cancelled. What the hell was I fighting for?
I am not a politician in prison, I am a political prisoner who uses jail to denounce Spain's human rights violations.
I've always believed in the goodness of people. I teach in prison. They all said, don't do it. Carry a gun, take Mace. Are you kidding? I guess, they're around so many criminal elements that they fear for.
