Prison Quotes - Page 6

Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

I will say, the one thing Mexico does well is punish prisoners. They do. They're good at that.

A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name, Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame, A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb Hourly inters poor mortals in its tomb; By ev'ry plague and ev'ry ill possess'd, Ev'n purgatory itself to thee 's a jest.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

I don't think anyone is free

Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.

Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.

When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind.

as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.

Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any theoretical, scientific or moral prison.

I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered !My life is my own.

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.

The general public knows practically nothing about the prison and appears to be little concerned about how it is managed and how prisoners are treated.

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system.

It is in prison ... that one becomes a real revolutionary.

Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.

During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem.

I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.

I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.

It's difficult to seek other people's love. It's deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.