Top Prison Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Prison quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Brendan Behan
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
- Brendan Behan
Collection: Prison
Image of Katherine Cecil Thurston
Most prisons have wide gates!
- Katherine Cecil Thurston
Collection: Prison
Image of Jack Abbott
I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society.
- Jack Abbott
Collection: Prison
Image of James Ussher
Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
- James Ussher
Collection: Prison
Image of Danny Trejo
I never imagined that I'd be out of prison.
- Danny Trejo
Collection: Prison
Image of Claudius Claudianus
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
- Claudius Claudianus
Collection: Prison
Image of Carrie Snow
I'd like to have a boyfriend in prison so I'd always know where he is.
- Carrie Snow
Collection: Prison
Image of Robert D. Hare
Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.
- Robert D. Hare
Collection: Prison
Image of Plato
One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.
- Plato
Collection: Prison
Image of Chaka Khan
If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.
- Chaka Khan
Collection: Prison
Image of Fela Kuti
When you're in prison, you can't do anything about what's happening outside.
- Fela Kuti
Collection: Prison
Image of Ryan Ross
The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.
- Ryan Ross
Collection: Prison
Image of Janusz Korwin-Mikke
Prisons are the universities of the opposition.
- Janusz Korwin-Mikke
Collection: Prison
Image of P. W. Botha
Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer.
- P. W. Botha
Collection: Prison
Image of Etheridge Knight
I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.
- Etheridge Knight
Collection: Prison
Image of Vernon Howard
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.
- Vernon Howard
Collection: Prison
Image of Robert Knepper
Prison Break really changed me to somebody that can put butts in seats.
- Robert Knepper
Collection: Prison
Image of George Jackson
I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me.
- George Jackson
Collection: Prison
Image of Yoseob
Feel like (I've been) released from prison.
- Yoseob
Collection: Prison
Image of Peter Kropotkin
Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.
- Peter Kropotkin
Collection: Prison
Image of CeCe McDonald
I've faced worse things in my life than prison
- CeCe McDonald
Collection: Prison
Image of Peter Moskos
I would prefer to get lashed rather than go to prison.
- Peter Moskos
Collection: Prison
Image of Charles Spurgeon
Pardon ever follows sincere repentence.
- Charles Spurgeon
Collection: Prison
Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Collection: Prison
Image of Seneca the Younger
No crime has been without a precedent.
- Seneca the Younger
Collection: Prison
Image of Seneca the Younger
While crime is punished it yet increases.
- Seneca the Younger
Collection: Prison
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
Convictions are prisons.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Prison
Image of William Wordsworth
In truth the prison, unto which we doom Ourselves, no prison is.
- William Wordsworth
Collection: Prison
Image of Lucy Maud Montgomery
That's all the freedom we canhope for - the freedom to choose our prison. [...]
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Collection: Prison
Image of Mitt Romney
No mandatory prison term for employers who hire illegals.
- Mitt Romney
Collection: Prison
Image of George Bernard Shaw
Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.
- George Bernard Shaw
Collection: Prison
Image of Greg Behrendt
I'm certain prison is pretty rough as it is but imagine if you were a murderer and a foodie!
- Greg Behrendt
Collection: Prison
Image of George Sand
As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.
- George Sand
Collection: Prison
Image of Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There are worse prisons than words.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Collection: Prison
Image of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Collection: Prison
Image of Horace
It is grievous to be caught.
- Horace
Collection: Prison
Image of Alan Moore
Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.
- Alan Moore
Collection: Prison
Image of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Collection: Prison
Image of Antonio Porchia
Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison.
- Antonio Porchia
Collection: Prison
Image of Roberto Bolano
Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
- Roberto Bolano
Collection: Prison
Image of Neil Peart
Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.
- Neil Peart
Collection: Prison
Image of William S. Burroughs
as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
- William S. Burroughs
Collection: Prison
Image of Cleve Jones
The penalties for homosexual conduct were - would vary from state to state, but they were - it was a felony in most states punishable with prison terms of varying lengths.
- Cleve Jones
Collection: Prison
Image of Edmund Burke
Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.
- Edmund Burke
Collection: Prison
Image of Charles Dickens
Are there no prisons?
- Charles Dickens
Collection: Prison
Image of Mason Cooley
The prison is the state writ small.
- Mason Cooley
Collection: Prison
Image of James Cook
Better to build orphanages than prisons.
- James Cook
Collection: Prison
Image of Eugene V. Debs
The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.
- Eugene V. Debs
Collection: Prison
Image of Eugene V. Debs
A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.
- Eugene V. Debs
Collection: Prison
Image of Charles Dickens
Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison.
- Charles Dickens
Collection: Prison