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Quotes About Prison

You'd be surprised. Besides, they don't even send royal traitors to prison, Rose. Everyone knows that." I scoffed. "Are you insane? Of course they do. What else do you think they do with traitors? Set them free and tell them not to do it again?" "No," said Abe, just before he turned away. "They execute traitors.
~ Richelle Mead
It turns out Dimitri had a friend, who had a friend, and despite the best security in the Moroi world, we managed to get into the Court's prison facilities.
~ Richelle Mead
Adrian. He was the reason I was able to survive in this prison. And he was also the reason I was here in the first place.
~ Richelle Mead
Guilt was its own prison.
~ Richelle Mead
Fear is a self-imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move against it with the weapons of faith and love.
~ Rick Warren
El temor es una prisión en la que usted mismo se mete. El amor bien formado hace desaparecer el temor.
~ Rick Warren
But that's enough of that. We can't go on forever watching these two disgusting people doing disgusting things to each other. We must get ahead with the story. Here is a picture of Mr and Mrs Twit's house and garden. Some house! It looks like a prison. And not a window anywhere.
~ Roald Dahl
The resistance to hearing the women at Greenham Common is not unrelated to the resistance to bizarre information we have been examining. There are economic as well as neurological reasons why Dr. Reich and Dr. Leary went to prison, while Dr. Teller, Father of the Hydrogen Bomb, is a recognized Authority on The Real Universe, rich, honored and praised throughout the Citadel.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
It only takes a few weeks in prison to become "a convict," whatever your definition of yourself was before, it only takes a few weeks in the Army to become a "soldier.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
When long-term convicts were first released they often experienced a form of agoraphobia—a fear of open spaces. The prison counselors had a special name for this type of agoraphobia when they attributed it to convicts—the fear of life. Freedom gave a man choices and choices could be terrifying. Every choice was a potential failure.
~ Robert Crais
LeCedrick Earle was maybe an inch shorter than me, with dark glossy skin and a shaved head. He was wearing a prison-issue orange jumpsuit and Keds. I said, "That's right. I work for an attorney named Jonathan Green.
~ Robert Crais
Guilt?" he remarked in prison. "It's this mechanism we use to control people. It's an illusion. It's a kind of social control mechanism—and it's very unhealthy. It does terrible things to our bodies. And there are much better ways to control our behavior than that rather extraordinary use of guilt.
~ Robert D. Hare
Me devolvieron a la celda sin que hubiese parado de reír. Seguí riendo y riendo porque de pronto supe que aquello había sido un mensaje de Dios: Él estaba de mi lado. Por algún motivo quería que yo siguiese con vida.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Tighter than a straight man's butt cheeks in prison
~ Kim Harrison
Sometimes," she said, wiping her eyes, "sometimes I wish I could stop being Toitovna. I get so tired of it, of everything that I've done." Michel sat beside her. "We're locked in our selves to the end. This is the price one pays for thought. But which would you rather be—convict, or idiot?
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
In it {a film Peter saw} a sadistic sergeant broke the spirit of soldier in a military prison by beating him up at systematically random intervals, from more than a day down to a quarter of an hour, so that the victim never knew when the next attack was coming, never felt safe. Life with Muriel, it seemed to Peter, had over the last seven or eight years turned into a decreasingly bearable version of that.
~ Kingsley Amis
Having been an employee all his life, and trapped in the mental, maximum security prison known as job security, he did not know how to recover from his failures or learn from his mistakes, much less how to start over to replace his paycheck and his pension.
~ Kiyosaki Robert
Apparently unaffected, she rose. Yeah, you're probably right. I should be going. She feigned a yawn. You've gotta head back to work and I've gotta head to jail. Big night for me. I'm planning to shiv someone for a bar of soap. --
~ Kresley Cole
Yeah, weirdly, our cell doesn't have laundry facilities. So I figured I'll wash undies at one time and outerwear at another, anyways keeping some cover for the cameras. I'm not shy, but frankly, I've had my limit of men chubbing themselves to videos of me. It's moved from simple idolatry to something more sinister. She sauntered over to his desk, hopping atop it, sitting on his papers. A little to Caged Heat, you know?
~ Kresley Cole
When Myst had been in a Horde prison, the Forbearer rebels took the castle, and one of their generals had freed her to make love to her. Before the Valkyrie could rescue her, things had gotten out of hand in a dank cell.
~ Kresley Cole
An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.
~ Joe Biden
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
~ Eugene Ionesco
What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison.
~ Malcolm X
When Reality is a prison, Your mind can set you free.
~ Zack Snyder