Prison Quotes - Page 18

• There was a lot of rebelliousness, without focus, in my younger years. And even when people ask me, "Oh you went to prison and you went to college for a couple years?" I'm like "Yeah, I learned more in prison than I think I ever learned in college." That's the sad truth.

  Immortal Technique

  Couple, College, Thinking

  Source: www.ballerstatus.com

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• The irony of prison is that it takes years and years and years to plan an elaborate escape, but all you have is years and years and years.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Years, Irony, Plans

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Mexico has many more kidnappings than the United States. The U.S. has very few kidnappings.The reason is, in the United States, we don't pay ransom. We turn it over to the FBI. They catch the person. And then, of course, we used to have the death penalty for it. Now it's life in prison. In Mexico, everybody pays. It's a business.

  Rudy Giuliani

  United States, Mexico, Ransom

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Prisoners do different things. Some write, some read. Some engage in athletic events and working out and some do all of that. Some get involved in the religious groups that they're part of. Some get involved in hobbies that are permitted in prison. There are plenty of ways to stay busy. You're never going to survive in prison unless you start getting busy.

  Jack Abramoff

  Religious, Writing, Work Out

  "Jack Abramoff's prison advice for Bob McDonnell". Interview with Jeremy Diamond, www.cnn.com. January 6, 2015.

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• Suddenly here was this somewhat roly-poly elderly, northern Italian peasant on the chair of Saint Peter and he was accessible - and he made himself accessible, he went to prisons, he went to hospitals, he went to the shrine of Loreto.

  George Weigel

  Italian, Elderly, Saint

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of all political action is coercion; even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Real, Believe, Gun

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.275, SUNY Press

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• Awakenings are always terrifying as they force you to realize your past has been lived in confinement, the most disturbing part is when you recognize that the shackle holding you down are largely once you have placed upon yourself, the prison is self constructed

  Dean Karnazes

  Past, Self, Awakening

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• One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.

  Plato

  Slave, Persons

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• At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Country, Men, Perfect

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman; and those who release her from her cobwebbed shelf and teach her to live with men have the merit of liberating, if not of discovering, her.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Purpose, Might

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.199

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• Everywhere - all over Africa and South America - you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they're terrifying, because they are the death of the soul. This is the prison this planet is being turned into.

  J. G. Ballard

  America, People, Soul

  October 30, 1982 Interview, Re/Search, No. 8/9, 1984.

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• It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.

  Oscar Wilde

  Needs, Prisoner, Reformation

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.164, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Children, School, Pay

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.262, Da Capo Press

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• The living grave of crime.

  Joaquin Miller

  Crime, Graves

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• Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.

  Juvenal

  Mean, Bravery, Transportation

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• Dare to do something worth of exile and prison if you mean to be anybody. Virtue is praised and left to freeze.
  [Lat., Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum
  Si vis esse aliquis. Probitas laudatur et alget.]

  Juvenal

  Mean, Virtue, Dare

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• We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Despair, Blank

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.90, Lulu.com

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• God keepe me from foure houses, an Vsurers, a Taverne, a Spittle, and a Prison.

  George Herbert

  House

  George Herbert (1959). “The works of George Herbert”

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• The prison is the state writ small.

  Mason Cooley

  States

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• A felon's cell--
  The fittest earthly type of hell!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Cells, Felons, Hell

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.100

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• Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations.

  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

  Jail, Married, Drawbacks

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• I'd like to have a boyfriend in prison so I'd always know where he is.

  Carrie Snow

  Knows

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• Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.

  Jeremy Collier

  Envy, Despair, Arms

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• California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a civilization.

  Molly Ivins

  Civilization, California, Doe

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• I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.

  Isadora Duncan

  Mind, Example, Body

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