Prison Quotes - Page 11

• I get so ticked off at you intellectually lazy people who think that the government is God, that every dollar they get or spend is somehow sacred. There is more fraud and waste and misuse. If the federal government were held accountable to the law as corporations are held accountable, half the federal government would be in prison.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Government, Law

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• A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a taste of freedom.

  Nelson Mandela

  Simple, Garden, Custodians

  Nelson Mandela (2013). “Long Walk To Freedom”, p.312, Hachette UK

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• It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen. The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Men, Prison Guards

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• 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.

  Byron Katie

  People, Genuine, Difficult

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.18, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I feel like I’m living in a prison. There are so many things I may not experience. I cannot go swimming, can’t visit relatives, can’t get a job, can’t have a boyfriend. I see so much of life I cannot have. I am living in a veritable prison.

  Candy Darling

  Jobs, Swimming, May

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• The question is not whether there is intelligent life out there, the question is, whether there is intelligent life down here. As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.

  Jacque Fresco

  War, Intelligent, Civilization

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• I am aware of what you're talking about with FEMA camps. What is particularly disturbing about that is they are going to be on former military bases. A ton of people have expressed their concerns that what they're building are prison camps.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Military, Talking

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• To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living selflessly, she finds a hole in the stone wall and on the other side of the wall, a voice. The voice comes through darkness and has no face. This voice becomes her mirror.

  Margaret Atwood

  Wall, Mirrors, Self

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems II: Poems Selected & New 1976-1986”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.

  Sam Sheppard

  Relationship, Mother, Father

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• ...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

  Oscar Wilde

  Father, Oxford, Two

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.99, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Finding Yourself, Signatures, May

  Bronislaw Malinowski (2001). “Coral Gardens and Their Magic: A Study of the Methods of Tilling the Soil and of Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands. The language of magic and gardening. II”, p.53, Psychology Press

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• If it doesn't make sense, you must find for the defense.

  Johnnie Cochran

  Defense, Should, Make Sense

  "A Lawyer's Life".

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

  Jack Abbott

  Hurt, It Hurts, Take Me

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

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• We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Community, Three, Felons

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• We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Liberty, Want

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.335, University of Georgia Press

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• It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Party, Heart, Years

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• The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Stones, Infamous

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• It is grievous to be caught.

  Horace

  Caught

  "Satires". Book I. 2. 134,

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• A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Crime, Impossibility

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1218, Library of Alexandria

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• 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.

  Ramsey Clark

  Criminals, Way, Individual

  Keynote address to American Correctional Association conference, Miami Beach, Fla., Aug. 1967

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• Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heart, Punishment, Vices

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.189

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• Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.

  Tacitus

  Punishment, Suffering, Example

  "Annals". Book by Tacitus. Book XIV, 44,

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• Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.

  Ovid

  Years, Taught, Crime

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Justice, Remember, Lowest

  "De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book III, Chapter 15), 45 BC.

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• It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances.

  Hosea Ballou

  Men, Judging, Mind

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