Prison Quotes - Page 10

• hen we mourn those who die young — those who have been robbed of time — we weep for lost joys. We weep for opportunities and pleasures we ourselves have never known. We feel sure that somehow that young body would have known the yearning delight for which we searched in vain all our lives.

  Josephine Hart

  Believe, Opportunity, Joy

  "Damage: a novel".

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• I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society.

  Jack Abbott

  Feels, Ifs

  Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

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• I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series.

  James Belushi

  Car, Thieves, World

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• Obesity is a prison; in the US we spend more to treat type 2 diabetes each year than is spent on education.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Type 2 Diabetes, Years, Obesity

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• Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of the acceptable into the nonacceptable, from respectability into the criminal community of the monster who was an enemy to the people.

  Marguerite Young

  Long, People, Community

  Marguerite Young (1999). “Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs”, Knopf

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• You never know you are in a prison unless you try the door

  Joe Bageant

  Doors, Trying, Knows

  Joe Bageant (2008). “Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War”, p.173, Broadway Books

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• One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Running, Men, Solitude

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• If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.

  Steven Bochco

  Prison Time, Done, Taste

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• Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Writing, Thinking, Leaving

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• By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.

  Cynthia Payne

  Girl, Vices, Campaigns

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• Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

  Michel Foucault

  Population

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• The soul is the prison of the body.

  Michel Foucault

  Soul, Body

  Michel Foucault, Jeremy Carrette (2013). “Religion and Culture”, p.13, Routledge

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• Are you searching for the river of your soul?
  Then come out of your prison.
  Leave the stream
  and join the river
  that flows into the ocean.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Rivers, Soul

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• We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think of 'success' as synonymous with, or at least dependent upon, 'schooling,' but historically that isn’t true in either an intellectual or a financial sense. And plenty of people throughout the world today find a way to educate themselves without resorting to a system of compulsory secondary schools that all too often resemble prison.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Country, School, Thinking

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• Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?

  Zadie Smith

  Thinking, People, Wish

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• Used books are the sluts of the literary world. Passed around from person to person, spreading their pages for anyone, getting cheaper and cheaper until eventually they end up in prison.

  Stephen Colbert

  Book, World, Pages

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• The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort of homely routine.That is ,by the way, why most prison memoirs are unreadable.The difficulty of conveying to the reader an idea of a nightmare world from which he has emerged makes the author depict the prisoner's state of mind as an uninterruped continuity of despair.He fears to appear frivolous or to spoil his effect by admitting that even in the depths of misery cheerfulness keeps breaking in.

  Arthur Koestler

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

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• Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build

  Talib Kweli

  Creating, Mind, Crime

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• My father always said I would do something big one day.'I've got a feeling about you, John Osbourne,' he'd tell me, after he'd had a few beers.'You're either going to do something very special, or you're going to go to prison.'
  And he was right, my old man.
  
  I was in prison before my eighteenth birthday.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Father, Beer, Men

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• Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Liberty, Faces, Ifs

  Leonardo da Vinci (2015). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.1240, Leonardo da Vinci

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• If somebody's in prison for non-violence, drug usage, and never committed a hard crime, they should be pardoned and let out.

  Ron Paul

  Drug, Violence, Crime

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• Awakening is about liberating yourself from the prison that is the world of the mind and daring to be here as all that you are.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Mind, World, Awakening

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• Christians are meant to have the same vocation as their King, that of cross-bearers. It is this conscience of a high calling and of partnership with Jesus which brings gladness in tribulations, which makes Christians enter prisons for their faith with the joy of a bridegroom entering the bridal room.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Christian, Jesus, Kings

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• Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.

  Paula Cole

  Music, Thank God, Emotion

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• Every single ancient wisdom and religion will tell you the same thing - don't live entirely for yourself, live for other people. Don't get stuck inside your own ego, because it will become a prison in no time flat.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Sacrifice, People, Ego

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