Prison Quotes

Interesting enough, we had a reunion of the 12 of us who graduated, right? The only one who wasn't there was the guy who became a priest, and he was literally in prison in Libya, for being a Catholic priest. Isn't that interesting? Everybody else made the reunion but that guy.

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

When I finished the role of Christ, I felt as though I'd been let out on parole. A man who has served 18 months isn't eager to go back to prison.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

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.

Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.

Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

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

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

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 devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that.

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.

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

You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem.

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.

I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of controlled substance.

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.

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