Prison Quotes

I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison.

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.

I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today.

Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.

The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who "disappeared". That's what the candle is for.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell.

Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.

That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone.

What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life.

I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.

The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.

Why would anyone expect Tyson to come out smarter? He went to prison for four years, not Princeton.

I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

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

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.

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.

In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.

Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.