Prison Quotes - Page 4

Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed.

I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.

Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.

This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were freed, were not, as some assumed, inflicted methodically, but were excesses committed by individual prison guards, their deputies, and men who laid violent hands on the detainees.

I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

I hate taking refugees. I guarantee you they are bad. That is why they are in prison right now. They are not going to be wonderful people who go on to work for the local milk people.

It was in prison that we found the hope of salvation for the Communists. It was there that we developed a sense of responsibility toward them. It was in being tortured by them that we learned to love them.

The cruelest prison of all is the prison of the mind.

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars

The soul is the prison of the body.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a book, I was not in prison. Reading was my escape.

Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.

Behind every great man in prison is another great man in prison.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

All of us have not been to a natural prison, but everybody in here has had a spiritual prison.