Prison Quotes
Prison Quote of the day
When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.
The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.
Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.
It appears that the murder rate inside prisons is ten times higher than that outside prisons. It must be due to all those Kalashnikov rifles that are issued to prisoners upon their incarceration.
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand.
I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.
You don't see people in prison treating each other the way people do on the outside, and the reason is that if you're rude to somebody in prison, you get killed.
I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner city schools to brand-new, high-tech prisons.
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 thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.
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.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
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.
The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.
After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of 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.
There's going to be a new code on Parliament Hill: bend the rules, you will be punished; break the law, you will be charged; abuse the public trust, you will go to prison.
Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?
Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.
Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.
In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.
My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all.
I don't care if you want to hunt, I don't care if you think it's your right. I say, sorry, you are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison.
You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free!
What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.
I'm feeling pretty good. A lot of people don't know this, but I am not currently in prison, which feels great.
A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals.
Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.
