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Quotes About Prison

A heart as hard as granite was slowly transformed to a heart ready to five and receive compassion. The story of the prince does that to men. It breaks them down, removes the rubble, and builds a castle where there once was a prison.
~ Unknown
Seorang pemimpin tidak berubah karena hukuman. Aku masuk penjara untuk memperjuangkan kemerdekaan, dan aku meninggalkannya dengan tujuan yang sama.
~ Cindy Adams
Ketika aku masuk penjara, aku akan menghadapinya dengan tabah. Kalau memang nasibku harus menghadapi penderitaan, biarkanlah. Bukankah lebih baik Sukarno menderita untuk sementara daripada Indonesia menderita untuk selama-lamanya?
~ Cindy Adams
let me let you in on a little secret as to why the new American gulag is going to be so popular. MSNBC has already done the math on this one: Prison = Entertainment! Now and forever! You
~ Cintra Wilson
Cliff, I'd like to take over, but our charter prevents it. NSA can't engage in domestic monitoring, even if we're asked. That's prison term stuff.
~ Clifford Stoll
Rilke used to say that no poet would mind going to gaol, since he would at least have time to explore the treasure house of his memory. In many respects Rilke was a prick.
~ Clive James
But at what price? What would she have to block out, just to go from one day to the next? You'll never understand the choice I've had to make. Either way, her life is over. Living like that; or prison. It's the end. Either one will break her.
~ Unknown
I have to spring a cat out of Rumelt Animal Shelter. Think of it as a prison break." It does the trick. He laughs. "Whose cat?" "My cat. What do you think? That I break out the cats of strangers?" "Let me guess, she was framed. She's innocent.
~ Holly Black
The Alkahest is gone. If he's the one who got it, they're not going to bother with prison. He'll be dead as soon as they find him.
~ Holly Black
Coldtown was dangerous. Tana knew. A glamorous cage, a prison for the damned and anyone who wanted to party with them.
~ Holly Black
Do you know why Celia and I broke up?... I said I was going to visit you in prison, and she said I couldn't. She said if you were the Enemy of Death, you were a murderer. She said I had to choose between you and her. - Jasper
~ Holly Black
What's your husband in for? Oh, bank robbery? Really? Mine's in for murder. Yep, strangled a girl. Off to the gym after this, are you?
~ Liane Moriarty
We need to shut down this Gitmo prison? Well, don't shut it down -- we just need to start an advertising campaign. We need to call it, "Gitmo, the Muslim resort." Any resort that treated people like this would have ads all over the New York Times trying to get people to come down and visit for some R&R, for some rest and relaxation.
~ Unknown
Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.
~ Lindsey Graham
There are many positive values that come with a Muslim upbringing. But when religion becomes about rules and hierarchies, when it starts to feel like a prison, I'm not interested.
~ Yasmine Hamdan
I went down to the prison in Menard, thinking we were the vanguard, but down there, I got down on my knees and listened and learned from the people.
~ Fred Hampton
When I first went in, I realized there's no green vegetables. They serve, like, spinach once every two weeks. The three meals they serve inmates every day is like slop.
~ Prodigy
So with a face set in Prisoner's Ennui, an expression I was getting quite good at, I allowed Lazlo to lead me over to the thick bulletproof window, with its phone receiver on each side, its chairs facing each other through the glass, and Deborah sitting in the seat on the far side.
~ Jeff Lindsay
only thing you need to worry about is which block they put you on. As you're a first-timer you'll probably end up on A block, where life is a lot easier. The old-timers, like me, are usually sent to D block, where there's no one under thirty and no one with a record for violence, so it's the ideal set-up
~ Jeffrey Archer
It's just that I was released from prison today.
~ Jeffrey Archer
Are you all right, my luv?" asked a lady who had moved from the other side of the carriage to sit next to Old Jack. "Yes, thank you," he said, the tears streaming down his face. "It's just that I was released from prison today.
~ Jeffrey Archer
Caution and I are old friends," Marik replied. "She's kept me alive and out from behind prison bars. I trust her.
~ Jenelle Leanne Schmidt
She stared up at him, at this man-she-knew-who-was-a-stranger, this person who'd risked everything in his world to kidnap another human so he could thrust away like a zoo monkey whenever he wanted. This loser had made a biological act so imperative that he was willing to go to prison to feel the same relief he could get with his own hand.
~ Jess Lourey
Most people who work in prison earn money through contraband.
~ Malcolm X