Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that. Votes: 4
Patricia McConnellThe percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985 Votes: 3
Serj TankianPrison make you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster. Votes: 3
Suge KnightGod keepe me from foure houses, an Vsurers, a Taverne, a Spittle, and a Prison. Votes: 3
George HerbertPrison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster. Votes: 3
Suge KnightMy character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all. Votes: 3
Wentworth MillerPrison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out. Votes: 3
Jessica MitfordPrison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison. Votes: 3
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyIt is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. Votes: 3
Malcolm ForbesThe degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. Votes: 2
Fyodor DostoevskyUnder a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. Votes: 2
Henry David ThoreauBy noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiWe amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMost people named Willie are either in prison or on the armwrestling circuit. Votes: 0
Jase RobertsonToo many people are living in a prison that they have themselves manufactured. Votes: 0
Michael BeckwithIll husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get. Votes: 0
Thomas TusserYou shouldn't have a profit motivation to fill prison cells with young Americans. Votes: 0
Hillary ClintonThe Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. Votes: 0
Bobby ScottLet all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times! Votes: 0
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself. Votes: 0
Christopher LaschOnly to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning. Votes: 0
Corrie Ten BoomThat's all the freedom we canhope for - the freedom to choose our prison. [...] Votes: 0
Lucy Maud MontgomeryTo finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison. Votes: 0
Robert BurchfieldAdversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger. Votes: 0
Philip EmeagwaliWithin yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison. Votes: 0
Edwin ArnoldWithin yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison. Votes: 0
Edwin ArnoldDreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison. Votes: 0
Henri Frederic AmielAn abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively. Votes: 0
Joe BidenIt's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them. Votes: 0
David HockneyIncreasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison. Votes: 0
Henry GirouxWithout turning prison life into something more meaningful, prisoners are more likely to reoffend. Votes: 0
Susan HillEach of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain. Votes: 0
Vernon Benjamin MountcastleI met my fathers in prison, they too a part of a scene; digging death. Votes: 0
Reginald Dwayne Bettsas soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape. Votes: 0
William S. BurroughsThe only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear Votes: 0
Aung San Suu KyiI would like to say prison life at its very best and worst infinitely sucks. Votes: 0
Leonard PeltierI like the community of acting better than the prison of writing. I like sets. Votes: 0
Carrie FisherNelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer. Votes: 0
P. W. BothaThe angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel. Votes: 0
Thomas WatsonSatisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker. Votes: 0
ZoroasterTypically, you get a year in prison for making a threat to assassinate the president. Votes: 0
Megyn KellyWe must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison. Votes: 0
J. B. PriestleyDepression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer. Votes: 0
Dorothy RoweThe difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall. Votes: 0
Denis HealeyIt is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come. Votes: 0
Malcolm XNo 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison. Votes: 0
Michael MooreKeeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million. Votes: 0
John GrishamHow much has spending most of the offseason in prison affected Jamal Lewis' poor start?. Votes: 0
Cris CollinsworthCommon sense dictates the term hot fudge sundae has a totally different meaning in prison. Votes: 0
Dana GouldIdentity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison. Votes: 0
M. John HarrisonNobody is free⦠Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons. Votes: 0
Ted SimonThey're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping. Votes: 0
Steve BuscemiDo not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love. Votes: 0
Leonardo da VinciWhen policemen go to prison in England, they have as bad a time as a pedophile. Votes: 0
Martin AmisWhat do people in prison say when they meet new friends? Give me your cell number. Votes: 0
Dana GouldOPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceFor the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room. Votes: 0
Abraham CowleyYou are a prisoner of your thoughts. Expand your thoughts and get out of the prison. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaThe world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution. Votes: 0
Walter RaleighJesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby. Votes: 0
Samuel RutherfordI met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me. Votes: 0
George JacksonYou should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul. Votes: 0
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynDare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody. Votes: 0
JuvenalWe are never free when we imprison ourselves in the prison of our fixed, false beliefs. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaI told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose, Votes: 0
Edward SnowdenA prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed. Votes: 0
Eugene V. DebsI only hope those rumors I hear about what goes on in prison are greatly exaggerated. Votes: 0
HomerIndia is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiWhen freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiSaying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will unlock the prison door. Votes: 0
Arnaud DesjardinsI don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison. Votes: 0
Bryan StevensonThe mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget. Votes: 0
Mitchell BurgessHe offered her power, money, status...a giant prison, all in exchange for only...her soul. Votes: 0
Coco J. GingerI would prefer to remain in prison for another 20 years than bargain my beliefs for freedom. Votes: 0
Samir GeageaI had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read? Votes: 0
Lorrie MooreCapitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created. Votes: 0
Eugene V. DebsUnder dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there. Votes: 0
Evan EsarIn California, thieves have three choices: They can go to prison, Sacramento, or Washington D.C. Votes: 0
Burt PrelutskyPeople in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever. Votes: 0
Laura PreponI spent five years in prison, a free man for the first time in my whole life. Votes: 0
Christian HosoiWe made it,' he shouted. 'Not bad for a prison break, eh?' 'Good thinking Jake. Votes: 0
Stephenie MeyerI will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God. Votes: 0
John BunyanI am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing. Votes: 0
Anais NinEven behind prison walls I can see the heavy clouds and the blue sky over the horizon Votes: 0
Nelson MandelaYour definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time. Votes: 0
Cheri HuberLike you, I have been disgraced about what I've seen on TV that took place in prison. Votes: 0
George W. BushNature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonLife is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death. Votes: 0
Charles Caleb ColtonI started out in 1985, and I was Inmate #1 in every prison movie made from '85 to '93. Votes: 0
Kim CoatesAfter the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison. Votes: 0
Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyI have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison. Votes: 0
Nelson MandelaWhy do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom? Votes: 0
Cynthia OzickIn chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key. Votes: 0
Laurell K. HamiltonMine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiHistory is neither a prison nor a museum, nor is it a set of materials for self-congratulation. Votes: 0
Alasdair MacIntyreThe iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison. Votes: 0
Charles SpurgeonParades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. Votes: 0
Will RogersDuring the Soviet era, private ownership was a crime punishable with up to five years in prison. Votes: 0
Anatoly ChubaisA grateful mindset can set you free from the prison of disempowerment and the shackles of misery. Votes: 0
Steve MaraboliI have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison. Votes: 0
Richard WurmbrandThe United States has more women and girls in prison than any other industrialized nation on earth. Votes: 0
Patricia ArquetteRemember that the Unification Church rose, not in freedom, but from a prison, the pit of suffering. Votes: 0
Sun Myung MoonI did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown. Votes: 0
Foxy BrownI'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series. Votes: 0
James BelushiNot to sound cynical, but all you ever learn in prison is how to be a better criminal. Votes: 0
Ras KassMy life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing. Votes: 0
Sylvia PlathThe once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell. Votes: 0
George W. BushDepression is a prison to which you have the key except you never think to look for it. Votes: 0
Kevin HearneA golf course is for golf. A tennis court is for tennis. A prison camp is for escaping. Votes: 0
Pierre FresnayThat's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone. Votes: 0
Jayson WilliamsI'd volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free. Votes: 0
Mohammad HattaReality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it. Votes: 0
Joyce CaryI won't go back on my decision. I'm not afraid of prison, but there are even worse dangers. Votes: 0
Bidzina IvanishviliThe worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherI want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten. Votes: 0
Henry Louis GatesIt costs the same to send a person to prison or to Harvard. The difference is the curriculum. Votes: 0
Paul HawkenI have been shown in darkness, light [and] have learned that, even in prison, one can be free, Votes: 0
Kayla MuellerI always said that if I wasn't studying psychopaths in prison, I'd do it at the stock exchange. Votes: 0
Robert D. HareMoney will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man. Votes: 0
Johnnie CochranA Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. Votes: 0
H. L. MenckenWhy would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton. Votes: 0
Dan DuvaMartha Stewart is getting out of prison so today the terror alert was raised from orange to pesto. Votes: 0
David Letterman[Some men are shortsighted, so] going to prison or going to hell just doesn't matter to these men. Votes: 0
Rodney StarkYou spend a lot of time thinking about how awful the prison is rather than envisioning your future. Votes: 0
Piper KernanA prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind. Votes: 0
Clarence DarrowWhen I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both. Votes: 0
Nelson MandelaHeaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy. Votes: 0
William WordsworthOne cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison. Votes: 0
PlatoLots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail. Votes: 0
Bobby SealeI feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society. Votes: 0
Jack AbbottThe best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison. Votes: 0
Fyodor DostoevskyI'm certain prison is pretty rough as it is but imagine if you were a murderer and a foodie! Votes: 0
Greg BehrendtI wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison. Votes: 0
Jeffrey ArcherAll of us have not been to a natural prison, but everybody in here has had a spiritual prison. Votes: 0
T. D. JakesIt was a land of shadows and ice. Of gray. And grayer. And black. -The Unseelie prison of Aedan Votes: 0
Karen Marie MoningThe soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body Votes: 0
Michel FoucaultBeing here feels like I'm out of prison. This is the right place, the right time, the right team. Votes: 0
Shaquille O'NealThe thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release. Votes: 0
Joyce MeyerMay was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin. Votes: 0
Sammy Davis, Jr.I'm very resourceful. I'd be good in prison. I'd be good in a shipwreck. I'd make a great hostage. Votes: 0
David LettermanTo live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. Votes: 0
Margaret AtwoodThe prison psychiatrist asked me if I thought sex was dirty. I told him only when it's done right. Votes: 0
Woody AllenThey transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose. Votes: 0
Janis KarpinskiThis is a darker Lex too, because he's been in prison and he wants revenge. He's not playing around. Votes: 0
Bryan SingerHe had wanted so hard to Escape, to find the stars. And all he had found was a new prison. Votes: 0
Catherine FisherIf someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to prison because I will kill him. Votes: 0
MarioAs far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again. Votes: 0
George SandI don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse. Votes: 0
Valentino RossiOnly Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed. Votes: 0
Madeleine L'EngleGreat towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts. Votes: 0
Pierre CharronIf I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison. Votes: 0
Chaka KhanOne of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand. Votes: 0
RumiMy prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man. Votes: 0
William PennIn Russia one can be as pure as can be and still lose everything in a flash and end up in prison. Votes: 0
Vladimir SorokinWhen I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison. Votes: 0
Nelson MandelaI think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison. Votes: 1 Daniel Berrigan
My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road. Votes: 3 Eric Stonestreet
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. Votes: 2 Dwight D. Eisenhower
I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me. Votes: 4 Oscar Wilde
People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental. Votes: 3 Hill Harper
My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all. Votes: 5 Wentworth Miller
What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison. Votes: 1 Eazy-E
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. Votes: 3 Bobby Scott
I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction. Votes: 6 Stedman Graham