Quotes About Prison

You are afraid all the time, and there are good reasons to fear," is the opening line about life in prison by Columbia University law professor Robert Ferguson in his 2014 book, Inferno.[49] What are the dimensions of this fear, this disseminated terror?

Gandhi saw that the power of any tyrant depends entirely on people being willing to obey. The tyrant may get people to obey by threatening to throw them in prison, or by holding guns to their heads. But the power still resides in the obedience, not in the prison or the guns.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

If anyone knew where they were, I'd send the ISDBB (Incredibly Stupid and Dumb Beyond Belief) award to the two guys who tried to break in to the Ohio penitentiary.

My kid wants to be a prison warden when he grows up so he can put thumb tacks on the electric chairs.

Why would Dad call you? I mean, you have to admit that he would have been better off calling the local prison and asking them to send out one of the convicted killers to come find me. - Shella

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Three year in prison and a dick is just another thing to put up your ass.

Moses could not sing this way. He is a minister of prison, a teacher of drudgery, an originator of servitude, or, as Paul usually calls him, "A minister of death, sin, and sadness" (2 Cor. 3:9). In antithesis to him we wish to sing of a kingdom that is delightful, free, and full of joy.

Elle voulait s'enfuir, mais il lui semblait que la prison était dans l'air lui-même.

Caminó hacia el taxi erguido, algo envarado, metido en la prisión de un cuerpo que le estaba traicionando mientras su mente, sus recuerdos, su arte y su voz extraordinaria poseían aún la frescura de las sábanas limpias.

Whites break the law too, but it is always the poor and the nonwhites who actually do the time in penitentiaries.

O Lord my God, I have trusted in thee;O Jesu my dearest one, now set me free.In prison's oppression, in sorrow's obsession,I weary for thee.With sighing and crying bowed down as dying,I adore thee, I implore thee, set me free!

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective.

It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective. And the most peculiar discovery Nora made was that, of all the extremely divergent variations of herself she had experienced, the most radical sense of change happened within the exact same life.

It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective. (…) It's not what you look at; it's what you see.

is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective.

It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective

Our prison population, in fact, is now the biggest in the history of human civilization. There are more people in the United States either on parole or in jail today (around 6 million total) than there ever were at any time in Stalin's gulags. For what it's worth, there are also more black men in jail right now than there were in slavery at its peak. See if this syllogism works, then. Poverty goes up; Crime goes down; Prison population doubles.

Our prison population, in fact, is now the biggest in the history of human civilization. There are more people in the United States either on parole or in jail today (around 6 million total) than there ever were at any time in Stalin's gulags. For what it's worth, there are also more black men in jail right now than there were in slavery at its peak.

The Grand Master felt surging within him one of those half-crazy rages which had so often come upon him in his prison, making him shout aloud and beat the walls. He felt that he was upon the point of committing some violent and terrible act – he did not know exactly what – but he felt the impulse to do something.