Prison Quotes - Page 15

• Most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dream, Wall, Work

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• You have a wonderful organization. I understand you have ten thousand here. And if you count the ones in the various federal prisons, it brings your total membership up to around thirty thousand.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Organization, Membership

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• "The only reason some of us are not exiled or thrown into prison is simply because we do not preach as fervently and as sternly as did Paul, John, Peter R.A. Torrey and others. This modern "santa claus" religion that is sweeping country today is not the religion Jesus taught and John practiced."

  Oliver B. Greene

  Country, Jesus, Religion

  Oliver B. Greene (2015). “The Revelation: Verse by Verse Study”, p.25, Ravenio Books

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• Dayodhuam: I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

  T. S. Eliot

  Thinking, Keys, Doors

  The Waste Land l. 412 (1922)

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• Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is mined deep in the earth by poor men who then give it to rich men who immediately bury it back in the earth in great prisons, although gold hasn't done anything to them.

  Mike Harding

  Humorous, Men, Giving

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• I don't want to paint myself as some kind of saint - that would be laughable - but I do think I've been able over the years to write humanely about subjects who are controversial and even contemptible. I've profiled pedophiles, stalkers, serial rapists, prison gang members and corrupt politicians.

  Robert Draper

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky ... by the amount of reading they did, the languages they studied, the range of their plans for a better social order. (Or rather, for a new social order.) In the Acts of the Apostles there are constant references to the Way and the New Man.

  Dorothy Day

  Reading, Men, Order

  "On Pilgrimage". "Catholic Worker", December 1968.

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• Illustrious confessors of Jesus Christ, a Christian finds in prison the same joys as the prophets tasted in the desert. Call it not a dungeon, but a solitude. When the soul is in heaven, the body feels not the weight of fetters; it carries the whole man along with it.

  Tertullian

  Christian, Jesus, Men

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• Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation of all modern progress. Machinery, trains, automobiles, the telegraph have played important parts in his own colossal life! Fifty years of public service, in prison and out, wrestling daily with practical details and harsh realities in the political world, have only increased his balance, open-mindedness, sanity, and humorous appreciation of the quaint human spectacle.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Appreciation, Humorous, Wrestling

  "Autobiography of a Yogi". Book by Autobiography of a Yogi, Ch. 44 - With Mahatma Gandhi At Wardha, 1946.

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• Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few hardened prisoners are more or less surreptitiously continuing their real vocations.

  Randall Jarrell

  Real, Criticism, Should

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Contemporary Poetry Criticism" (p. 62), 1980.

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• Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.

  Evan Esar

  People, Dictatorship, Superiors

  "20,000 Quips and Quotes". Book by Evan Esar, 1968.

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• You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails.

  David Gerrold

  Civilization, Jail, People

  David Gerrold (2014). “Under the Eye of God: Trackers, Book One”, p.96, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• The average prison term for a convicted murderer in America is 6.5 years. The average tenure for a member of Congress is 13 years. We've got it backwards. We are giving early release to the wrong criminal class.

  Pat Robertson

  Average, Years, Class

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• Prison does strange things to men. Although its purpose is to break the free spirit of a man, in many cases it just adds fuel to the fire that has never been and will never be extinguished.

  William Powell

  Men, Fire, Free Spirit

  "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, "Postscript", p. 153, 1971.

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• A word of advice: If you get the choice between the upper and lower bunks in a cell, choose the lower. Prisons do not turn off their lights at night, and I spent a sleepless night, without a mattress, with a five-hundred-watt bulb shining directly into my eyes.

  William Powell

  Eye, Night, Light

  "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, "Postscript", p. 157, 1971.

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• Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice.

  Immanuel Kant

  Blood, Punishment, Islands

  Immanuel Kant, Mary J. Gregor (1999). “Practical Philosophy”, p.474, Cambridge University Press

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• All during that prison time I really lived by prayer. Be in prayer always, we're told, and back then I was.

  Diet Eman

  Prayer, Prison Time

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• Depression is a prison to which you have the key except you never think to look for it.

  Kevin Hearne

  Thinking, Keys, Looks

  Kevin Hearne (2013). “Hunted: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Six”, p.90, Del Rey

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• We need to shut down this Gitmo prison? Well, don't shut it down - we just need to start an advertising campaign. We need to call it, 'Gitmo, the Muslim resort.' Any resort that treated people like this would have ads all over the 'New York Times' trying to get people to come down and visit for some R&R, for some rest and relaxation.

  Rush Limbaugh

  New York, People, Relaxation

  "The Rush Limbaugh Show", June 14, 2005.

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• That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Prison Guards, Captivity, Would Be

  "About Tolerance" by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, 1977.

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• When you go to prison they forget it's your Constitution, too.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Constitution, Forget, Forget It

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 187), 1975.

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• Sometimes the longer you are inside a prison, the harder it is to fathom what is possible beyond its walls.

  Suki Kim

  Wall, Sometimes, Fathom

  Suki Kim (2014). “Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite”, p.44, Crown

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• The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance. Good friendships, online or off, urge us toward empathy; they give us comfort and also pull us out of the prisons of our selves.

  Esther Earl

  Good Friend, Self, Giving

  Esther Earl, Lori Earl, Wayne Earl (2014). “This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl”, p.14, Penguin UK

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• I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.

  Bobby Fischer

  Cells, Mind, Coward

  Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. May 24, 1999.

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• Home, home -- a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease, and smells.

  Aldous Huxley

  Girl, Home, Boys

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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