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Prison Quotes - Page 11

The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.

The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.

Jennifer Lindsey, Jane Goodall (1999). “Jane Goodall: 40 years at Gombe : a tribute to four decades of wildlife research, education, and conservation”, Stewart, Tabori and Chang

That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

You will never be completely free from risk if you're free. The only time you can be free from risk is when you're in prison.

"The damning truth about Snowden: Traitor who put Western lives at risk from terrorists reveals he didn't even read all the top-secret files he leaked". Interview with John Oliver, www.dailymail.co.uk. April 6, 2015.

Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!

David Mitchell (2008). “Black Swan Green”, p.153, Hachette UK

I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.

Christopher Love (2012). “The Last Words and Letters of Christopher Love: With A Clear Vindication of His Principles and Practices”, p.125, Puritan Publications

Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.

Will Rogers, Steven K. Gragert, Judy G. Buckholz, Oklahoma State University, Will Rogers Memorial Commission (1974). “The Writings of Will Rogers”

One crime has to be concealed by another.

"Phaedra". Tragedy by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, DCCXXI, c. 290 AD.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.202

In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

Robert Burns, Robert Chambers (1838). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. To which are Now Added, Notes Illustrating Historical, Personal, and Local Allusions. [The Editor's Preface Signed: R. C., I.e. Robert Chambers.]”, p.88