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Quotes About Prison

Badly-treated children have a clear notion of what they are likely to get if they betray the secrets of a prison-house before they are clear of it.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Keeping my family out of prison best I can. That is success to me. I created that without selling records.
~ Yo Gotti
Of course,' the inspector remarked, with the naïvety of the corrupt, 'if he had really been rich, he would not be in prison.
~ Alexandre Dumas
by degrees they waxed more and more angry by their own shouts, and as they were not able to understand how any one could have courage without showing it by cries, they attributed the silence of the dragoons to pusillanimity, and advanced one step towards the prison, with all the turbulent mob following in their wake.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Yes; but one gets out of prison, said Caderousse, who, with what sense was left him, listened eagerly to the conversation, and when one gets out and one's name is Edmond Dantes, one seeks revenge
~ Alexandre Dumas
Thus, then, on the 20th of August, 1672, as we have already stated in the beginning of this chapter, the whole town was crowding towards the Buytenhof, to witness the departure of Cornelius de Witt from prison, as he was going to exile; and to see what traces the torture of the rack had left on the noble frame of the man who knew his Horace so well.
~ Alexandre Dumas
La mer est le cimetière du château d'If.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Dac? florile înseamn? libertate, relu? cu tristeÈ›e osânditul, atunci înseamn? c? libertatea o am, de vreme ce am florile.
~ Alexandre Dumas
If the path to experiencing one's feelings is blocked either the prohibitions of poisonous pedagogy or by the needs of the parents, then these feelings will have to be lived out. This can occur either in a destructive form, as in Hitler's case, or in a self-destructive one, as in Christiane F.'s. Or, as in the case of most criminals who end up in prison, this living out can lead to the destruction both of the self and of others.
~ Alice Miller
The true self cannot communicate because it has remained unconscious, and therefore undeveloped, in its inner prison.
~ Alice Miller
The brilliance of enslaving the spirit is that it is an invisible prison from which the inmate appears to derive some comfort.
~ Alice Walker
Naked in solitary prison cell he looks down at a hard-on.
~ Allen Ginsberg
OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Pardon me," said Glokta, wiping his running eye with a finger, "but I spent two years in the Emperor's prisons. I daresay, if I had known I'd be there half that long at the start, I would have made a more concerted effort to kill myself. Seven hundred days, give or take, in the darkness. As close to hell, I would have thought, as a living man can go. My point is this – if you mean to upset me, you'll need more than harsh language.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Prison didn't frighten him especially. He had a lot of fans in there.
~ Joe Hill
In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!
~ Joel McHale
The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.
~ Philip Zimbardo
That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.
~ Jack Abbott
Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.
~ Jeffrey Archer
If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.
~ Chaka Khan
Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Well, the first two days in prison, I had to go through what life is like when you've been smoking weed for as long as I have and then you stop. Emotionally, it was like I didn't know myself.
~ Tupac Shakur
lovely young lady is telling you, pal, is, you're cut off. The gravy train just pulled into its last stop. I know the sound of those brakes." I yanked the curtain out of Mr. Rose's hand, scowled, and turned back to Mr. Williams. "What's your number, girl?" he demanded. I almost laughed. As in the prison system, Mr. Williams thought we went by numbers
~ Echo Heron
Someone once told me a joke," he said. "I'd like to be a pacifist, but people keep getting in the way.' I made a decision to fight for my friend in prison. It was a deliberate decision. It isn't the only way-it's just something I decided.
~ Edeet Ravel