Quotes About Prison

Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?

That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.

Scapegoating will go on forever. We need someone to blame - illegal immigrants, single moms, people in prison. We need someone to victimize.

He offered her power, money, status...a giant prison, all in exchange for only...her soul.

Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.

Who cut him?' Sam liked saying things like 'Who cut him?' It reminded him of being a kid and watching prison movies, which is probably why prisoners talked like that, too.

I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.

We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.

Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

Darkness is a prison from which only light escapes.

Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

If life is a prison, then death is the ultimate freedom.

I promise you that I will steal your heart and keep it in the prison of my love forever.

In this universe, love is the liberating force from the prison of judgment.

Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison; they turn to poetry.

They let dangerous men out of prison now, yes sir, I'm afraid it's so. Cause they're over crowded and it was only his fifth offense.

Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.

Obviously, he needed to kill Bubba, but how? The man was a trained prison guard twice his size. The tax auditors had been easy. Mr. Ethics had slapped them to death with their own attaché cases. And even then, his neighbours had chipped in to help him hide the bodies. "A tax auditor, you say? No problem. Let me get my spade.

Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.

This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands.

Carlton, Sydney (1949-), painter and decorator. Those who argue that bestiality should be treated with understanding had a setback in 1998 when Carlton, a married man from Bradford, was sentenced to a year in prison for having intercourse with a Staffordshire bull terrier, named Badger. His defence was that Badger had made the first move. 'I can't help it if the dog took a liking to me,' he told the court. This was not accepted.

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.

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.