Prison Quotes - Page 8

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

Enlightenment is freedom, the thought of enlightenment is prison. The truth exists in the moment. If we´re anywhere else, seeking something outside of the moment, we´re in prison.

I escaped a North Korean prison camp

Mandela? He lasted 27 years in prison but he never could've done 30.

Why, when God's world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places?

Love cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks.

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.

He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss

The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

A beane in liberty is better then a comfit in prison.

I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?

"Prison Break" has been a really great experience because of the writers. I think that in television, you can have great directors, really good actors, but if it's not on the page... I think a series lives and dies in writing.

Malcolm X educated himself in prison by reading.

I would prefer to remain in prison for another 20 years than bargain my beliefs for freedom.

Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

I'm going to do the time and I am going to do it the right way

In prison, illusions can offer comfort.

Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

I mean, I was just one of the ones who got exposed, and because of the position I was in, where I was in my life, it went mainstream. A lot of people got out of it after my situation, not because I went to prison but because it was sad for them to see me go through something that was so pointless, that could have been avoided.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.