Prison Quotes - Page 13

• If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in cities, towns, and hamlets, ofttimes by men who graduated with an education and equipment for just that sort of retributive service from some penal institution.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Men, Cities, People

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• In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast stretches yet to be covered before the prison becomes, if it ever does, an institution for the reclamation and rehabilitation of erring and unfortunate men and women.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Men, Progress Of Society, Doe

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• The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Should, Institutions, Humans

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• 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.

  Eugene V. Debs

  People, Littles, Concerned

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• Some go to prison for stealing, and others for believing that a better system can be provided and maintained than one that makes it necessary for a man to steal in order to live.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Believe, Men, Order

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• All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.

  Edna O'Brien

  Self, Cells, People

  Edna O'Brien (1978). “Seven novels and other short stories”, HarperCollins

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• Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and thinking about the next crime? Or do we want them having a little purpose in life and learning a skill?

  John Ensign

  Thinking, Lifting Weights, Skills

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• Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.

  Larry Flynt

  Taken, Expression, Years

  "Publisher Larry Flynt". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. April 22, 2011.

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• I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn't even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons - I just had to be willing to make the phone calls.

  Lisa Gardner

  Unique, Phones, Suspense

  "Cosmo's Book Club: Meet Your Next Must-Read". Interview with Gabrielle Frank, www.cosmopolitan.com. March 9, 2010.

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• When it comes to locations, I'm one of those crazy authors who has to see it, touch it, taste it, before I trust myself to recreate it for my readers. Having said that, visiting a locked-down pediatric psych ward was the most intimidating research I've ever done - and I've visited maximum security prisons, shooting galleries, bone collections, etc.

  Lisa Gardner

  Crazy, Psych, Trust Myself

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• Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.

  Tupac Shakur

  Inspirational, Greed, Generations

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• Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.

  Johnny Cash

  Wall, Order, Law

  Song: Greystone Chapel, Album: At Folsom Prison

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• We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Political, Exile, Internals

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• They let dangerous men out of prison now, yes sir, I'm afraid it's so. Cause they're over crowded and it was only his fifth offense.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Men, Dangerous Man, Politics

  Song: Mr. Lincoln

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

  Stedman Graham

  Years, Folks, Five

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• You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts.

  Stedman Graham

  Heart, Men, Negativity

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. September 22, 2006.

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• I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

  Kamala Harris

  Believe, Criminals, Serious

  "San Francisco D.A. Kamala Harris Talks To Kimberly Marteau About Her New Book Smart On Crime". Interview with Kimberly Marteau Emerson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!

  Joel McHale

  Makeup, Juice, Use

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support.

  Janis Karpinski

  Running, Military, Mps

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• The fatalism of the limits-to-growth alternative is reasonable only if one ignores all the resources beyond our atmosphere, resources thousands of times greater than we could ever obtain from our beleaguered Earth. As expressed very beautifully in the language of House Concurrent Resolution 451, 'This tiny Earth is not humanity's prison, is not a closed and dwindling resource, but is in fact only part of a vast system rich in opportunities...'

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Opportunity, Space, House

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• Prison opened my eyes to so many things. It was a great time. I met interesting people. I got to understand the behaviour of the police and the media. I am an observer of the human race.

  Jonathan King

  Eye, Race, Media

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• I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.

  Natalie Merchant

  Humorous, Thinking, Murder

  "Natalie Merchant: mother superior" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. July 08, 2010.

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• Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

  Patrick Macnee

  Talking, Years, House

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• I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Father, Party, Years

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• I believe, and I may be wrong, the system sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Prison is supposed to rehabilitate, but they don't do that in a lot of cases.

  Amaury Nolasco

  Believe, May, Sometimes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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