Prison Quotes - Page 12

My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.

Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

Every crime destroys more Edens than our own

[To a group of women prisoners:] You're luckier than I am. You're wanted and I'm not.

Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.

Prison guard unions have become the powerful political forces in some states, particularly California.

Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?

I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally.

[On travel:] Who would be so besotted as to die without having made at least the round of this, his prison?

Every invalid is a prisoner.

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

When I say the people around me, I mean the prisoners, the guards.

Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.

If it doesn't make sense, you must find for the defense.

All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

When you go to prison they forget it's your Constitution, too.

Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.