Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Vick

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

Plato

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

Mason Cooley

The prison is the state writ small.

Michel Patini

I was never a prisoner to my footballing status.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

James Cook

Better to build orphanages than prisons.

James Anthony Froude

Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.

Johnny Cash

Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.

William Wordsworth

In truth the prison, unto which we doom Ourselves, no prison is.

Robert Reich

The fastest growing occupation in the private sector is security guards. The fastest growing occupation in the public sector is prison guards. (1992)

Robert Knepper

Prison Break really changed me to somebody that can put butts in seats.

Robert D. Hare

Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.

William S. Burroughs

as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.

Ryan Ross

The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.

Lewis Tappan

Most of the prisoners told the interpreter that they are from Mandingo.

Lewis Tappan

The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves.

Leonard Peltier

I would like to say prison life at its very best and worst infinitely sucks.

Roberto Bolano

Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.

Robert Penn Warren

We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?

Sam Harris

We are all prisoners of our thoughts.

Roland Joffe

I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.

Neil Peart

Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.

Stephen King

In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.

Vernon Howard

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

Steven Bochco

If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.

Robert Green Ingersoll

A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.

Stockwell Day

People like myself say, 'Fix the problem. Put him in the general [prison] population. The moral prisoners will deal with him in a way we don't have the nerve to do.'

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.

William Greider

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.