Prison Quotes - Page 3

One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.

If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.

You are only a prisoner when you surrender.

Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

Dare to do something worth of exile and prison if you mean to be anybody. Virtue is praised and left to freeze. [Lat., Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum Si vis esse aliquis. Probitas laudatur et alget.]

I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen. The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

'The prison' begins well before its doors. It begins as soon as you leave your house - and even before.

Keeping my family out of prison best I can. That is success to me. I created that without selling records.

The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.

I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.

Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.

I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.