Prison Quotations

I'm involved in quite a few ministries as a bridge builder, trying to match generous givers and donors to other ministries. Based on my past, I'm also involved in mainly the prison ministry. I go to jails and prisons and share my story, trying to give them some hope.

Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch.

Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.

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

'The Big Girls' has always seemed to me to be a story about different kinds of families - a divorced mother with a child; a father with his child and his girlfriend; a mother of three children, suffering from postpartum depression; and the rigid artificial families maintained by women in prison - all potentially perilous.

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

When a person in a Russian prison decides to start speaking, to start speaking the truth - they start to reject oppression.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.

Interesting enough, we had a reunion of the 12 of us who graduated, right? The only one who wasn't there was the guy who became a priest, and he was literally in prison in Libya, for being a Catholic priest. Isn't that interesting? Everybody else made the reunion but that guy.

Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.

My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison door slamming shut and I was being placed in an isolation cell. No one else could possibly be feeling what I was. I hated my depression and all of its symptoms.

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.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

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

Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like.

Yes, I am scared of prison. It's the last thing if you are after building up a business over 38 years and you are approaching your 66th birthday and you never owed a man a penny and you feel hard done by and you try to protect yourself and your family and go to prison - if that is the society we are living in, I am happy to accept that.

Prison make you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

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

In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.

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

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

All I did was pray to God, every day. In prison camp, the main prayer was, 'Get me home alive, God, and I'll seek you and serve you.' I came home, got wrapped up in the celebration, and forgot about the hundreds of promises I'd made to God.

There are nations, where people live in captivity, fear and silence. I believe, one day from prison camps and torture cells and from exile the leaders of freedom will emerge. The world should stand with those oppressed people until the day of their freedom finally arrives.

I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.

I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.

I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.

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

The crisis of democracy in the West is not the result of falling in love with another system. In Europe and America people who are disillusioned with democracy do not dream about the Chinese model or any other form of authoritarian rule. They do not dream about government that controls Internet and puts in prison those daring to disagree.

That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it it was a very spiritual time for me.

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

All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

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

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

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.

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.

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

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

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.

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

I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.

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

When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?

One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics

When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past,

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

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

A harrassed and dubious childhood under the hand of a well-meaning but barbarous mother's help from County Armagh led me to think of the North of Ireland as prison and the South as a land of escape.

The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

The last place I would ever want to go is prison.

Being here feels like I'm out of prison. This is the right place, the right time, the right team.

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.

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

It shouldn't take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow the whistle on bad government acts done in secret. But it does. And that is an immense problem for democracy, one that all journalists should be united in fighting.

The English prison system is altogether mediaeval and outworn. In some of its details, the system has improved since they began to send the Suffragettes to Holloway. I may say that we, by our public denunciation of the system, have forced these slight improvements.

I went to prison, I paid my bill.

Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.

There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.

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.

On some days in prison you might just need to get out of there, but on some days - not all days, but some - you might be able to see the sky and see the blue in it.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

I trust work, directors - I don't live in fear. All good experiences have come from trusting the universe. There is no other way to live or love. Otherwise, you create your own prison.

It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.

People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental.

My concern is not for the judicial system, but for the reality that the shark fin mafia of Costa Rica has a price on my head, and a Costa Rican prison would provide an excellent opportunity for someone to exercise this lethal contract against me.

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

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

Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

I usually tell people I watch like '24 and 'Prison Break.'

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.

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

There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason.

When I left prison almost two years ago, I hoped that I could start my life anew again, ... And I'm now of the belief that I may never be able to do so. I just do not know what it's going to take to make this matter end.

Some months your light bill is higher than other months and that is what happened with our Medicaid and prison expenses over the last two years, ... But as long as you have enough money to pay the bills, you still have a surplus. And that is the shape we are in.

One of the best movies of the year was 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes.' That's not just an action movie - it's a prison film.

I have done prison time for 13 years without any conviction.

I didn't want to spend the rest of my life in prison for somebody else's act.

I don't know what the prosecution will ask for but the death penalty is still legal in Ethiopia. On a personal note that is not the penalty I would like to see applied, ... It is for the prosecution and courts to decide, but if I have any say on it I would prefer prison sentences rather than death sentences.

Many of these stories are completely fabricated. ... There was no torture. Prison wardens are forbidden to physically abuse inmates.

Much like 24, Prison Break is packed with multiple plot twists.

making money and a person going to prison for expressing their viewpoint.

should be in prison paying for the crime of sedition and overthrowing the legitimate government of Lucio Gutierrez, and Lucio Gutierrez should continue governing honestly.

She was prepared to go to prison (Thursday).

I spent 24 and a half years in prison

To preserve the integrity of our free market economy, individuals who defraud American businesses and consumers by participating in international price-fixing conspiracies will be prosecuted and sent to prison no matter where they live or where they commit the crime.