Prison Quotes - Page 3

• Too many people are living in a prison that they have themselves manufactured.

  Michael Beckwith

  Life, Motivational, People

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• In prison, illusions can offer comfort.

  Nelson Mandela

  Comfort, Illusion, Offers

  Nelson Mandela (2009). “Long Walk To Freedom Vol 2: 1962-1994”, p.182, Hachette UK

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• If life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows of our dreams, their colourful patterns engraving our oblivion on the static surface of the walls.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Wall, Philosophical

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• I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline, the sensations, but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly, to try to understand things.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Opportunity, Thinking, Years

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• Why, when God's world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places?

  Rumi

  Fall, World, Bigs

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• I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.

  Suge Knight

  Heart, Gangsta, Police

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• Security without liberty is called prison.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Patriotic, Liberty, Security

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• Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Thinking

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• You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.

  Vernon Howard

  Can Not, Knows, Ifs

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• I don't think anyone is free

  Graham Sutherland

  Thinking

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• The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind.

  Mark Haskell Smith

  Wall, Marijuana, Years

  Mark Haskell Smith (2012). “Heart of Dankness: Underground Botanists, Outlaw Farmers, and the Race for the Cannabis Cup”, p.33, Broadway Books

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• When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Book, People

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• The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tongue, Fame, Abode

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.299, Library of America

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• In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Jail, Want, Denied

  Eldridge Cleaver (2015). “Target Zero: A Life in Writing”, p.42, Macmillan

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• They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

  Steve Buscemi

  Escaping, Bail, Film

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2001.

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• I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Cells, Turns, Knows

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• Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Funny, Gay, Men

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• Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U- Niversity of Gottingen.

  George Canning

  Eye, Thinking, Views

  'Song'

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• I know not whether Laws be right,
  Or whether Laws be wrong;
  All that we know who be in jail
  Is that the wall is strong;
  And that each day is like a year,
  A year whose days are long.

  Oscar Wilde

  Witty, Strong, Wall

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 5, st. 1 (1898)

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• Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.

  Scott Lynch

  Wall, Angel, Iron

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• I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

  James Ussher

  World, May, Study

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• Your room is not your prison. You are.

  Sylvia Plath

  Rooms, Your Room

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.186, Anchor

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• One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

  Bertrand Russell

  Respect, Humor, Public Opinion

  "The Conquest of Happiness".

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• Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Home, School, Gay

  Decline and Fall (1928) pt. 3, ch. 4

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• Your way begins at the other side.
  Become the sky.
  Take an axe to the prison wall.
  Escape.
  Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.
  Do it now.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Change

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