Prison Quotes - Page 5

When [Nelson Mandela] was in prison I admired him for his moral strength... Of his period in power I can see few results. Apartheid no longer exists, at least to all appearances, but no one understands what the new government in South Africa is doing.

We're not prisoners of the past.

When Reality is a prison, Your mind can set you free.

Your room is not your prison. You are.

You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it.

Are you searching for your soul? Then come out of your own prison.

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.

Tribes must be our homes, not our prisons.

I would like to say prison life at its very best and worst infinitely sucks.

...the way to reform has always led through prison.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.

There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.

It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear. But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten the reservations were meant to be death camps.

Structures of which we are unaware hold us prisoner.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Loneliness feels like prison.

Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in.

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself.

When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness into freedom.