Prison Quotes

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

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!

Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.

Security without liberty is called prison.

Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

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.

If you can't do anything about it then let it go. Don't be a prisoner to things you can't change.

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.

I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.

A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer.

Prison is not a place for humans. Period. It's just an animal house.

The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.

There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.

After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison.

Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.

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.

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.

Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.

What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.

When you're in prison, you can't do anything about what's happening outside.

I'm feeling pretty good. A lot of people don't know this, but I am not currently in prison, which feels great.