Prison Quotations | Page 2

The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

Hate put me in prison. Love's gonna bust me out.

We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.

Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.

If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.

The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the House was distressing to Members of Parliament generally.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports.

Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.

I have a company where I'm trying to get projects off the ground. Me and my partner Madeleine Sackler, we just shot our first feature in a maximum security prison where about 95% of the cast were incarcerated men. We're editing that and there's a doc going with it.

Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities.

Prison officials have been more concerned about sparing the sensitivities of executioners and witnesses than protecting the condemned prisoner from pain. They are more concerned with appearances than with the reality.

By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.

Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.

Most people named Willie are either in prison or on the armwrestling circuit.

They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.

There are plenty of well-dressed people now going to prison for defrauding their shareholders, ... We have to be careful about making assumptions about folks simply on the way they look. That's a dangerous thing to do because it's how we start to create stereotypes.

Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison.

You will never be completely free from risk, if you're free. The only time you can be free from risk is when you're in prison.

In exchange for ten years of being on top, I'm gonna end up in prison or I'm gonna end up dead, and there's something fascinating about that.

We're looking into it, ... to see what it might mean in the long term, but so far, we've received some assurances it doesn't have anything negative in it. It's beneficial that we'll still be in the prison system.

We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.

I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

When I left prison almost two years ago, I hoped that I could start my life anew again, ... And I'm now of the belief that I may never be able to do so. I just do not know what it's going to take to make this matter end.

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

Are you ready to step out of the prison of memory and conditioned responses into the experience of freedom? If so, then observe your addictive behaviors without judgment.

To preserve the integrity of our free market economy, individuals who defraud American businesses and consumers by participating in international price-fixing conspiracies will be prosecuted and sent to prison no matter where they live or where they commit the crime.

I spent 24 and a half years in prison

making money and a person going to prison for expressing their viewpoint.

Many of these stories are completely fabricated. ... There was no torture. Prison wardens are forbidden to physically abuse inmates.

She was prepared to go to prison (Thursday).

Some months your light bill is higher than other months and that is what happened with our Medicaid and prison expenses over the last two years, ... But as long as you have enough money to pay the bills, you still have a surplus. And that is the shape we are in.

should be in prison paying for the crime of sedition and overthrowing the legitimate government of Lucio Gutierrez, and Lucio Gutierrez should continue governing honestly.

Much like 24, Prison Break is packed with multiple plot twists.

One of the best movies of the year was 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes.' That's not just an action movie - it's a prison film.

I have done prison time for 13 years without any conviction.

I didn't want to spend the rest of my life in prison for somebody else's act.

I don't know what the prosecution will ask for but the death penalty is still legal in Ethiopia. On a personal note that is not the penalty I would like to see applied, ... It is for the prosecution and courts to decide, but if I have any say on it I would prefer prison sentences rather than death sentences.

I am thankful to finally be reunited with my wife and five children, ... I did my time in prison and moved on with my life. I hope and pray that everyone will try to understand that my past is behind me and to please focus on my future and what I do from here on out.

Based on the 70 percent rule, (Brown's) actual prison time will be 9.1 years before he's eligible for parole,

I felt after I left prison in England that maybe there was a slim chance I could put my life back on track and have a career.

Giuliani visited Indian Point and said, 'It's a reverse of Marion' high-security prison in upstate New York. It's as secure as Marion, but not in keeping people in but keeping people out.

From the first day, I knew I'm going to go to prison or jail. I'll deal with it because somebody died.

He has accused me of being a killer. Now if he has the guts, he should come back to serve his prison sentence as convicted.

He has been moved to the prison hospital ... suffering from a high level of acetone in his blood and urine, which eventually leads to a coma and threatens his life.

He has been in prison for eight and a half months already,

He has been convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole, ... So from a public perspective, he is a very dangerous individual.

He is in high spirits. Obviously he sounded a lot more optimistic than when I saw him in prison a year and a half ago.

Today is the day to break free from the prison of the person you know yourself to be and step into a self you have yet to know. Will it be comfortable? No, but do it anyway.

He didn't commit these crimes for any of the usual reasons we hear, like needing money to support a drug habit. He did this because he wanted to be a big man in the neighborhood. Well, now he can be a big man in the state prison system.

He knew perfectly well that at some level there would be a lot of support for him, even if he went to prison or took his own life.

Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.

I think the judge has leeway from zero time in prison to life.

I think the parole board is acting irresponsibly and outrageously. The doctor in the prison keeps telling us, 'What can I do to get him out? He shouldn't be in here.

I think it starts at the very top with the elected officials, goes to the appointed officials, goes to the Department of Criminal Justice ... and down to the prison employees who were very lax that day.

I think that show has really captured an audience's imagination. Viewers love the thrill ride of each and every episode. And when, and if, the prison break does happen, I feel that there's a strong enough investment in the two lead characters that the audience is going to go along for the ride.

Our secretary read the story and told us about it. His prison tattoos are actually easier to remove than professional ones.

Our family's position now is any time he comes up for parole we will be at every parole board meeting to make sure he stays in prison where he belongs.

People have been talking about it, and the reason they have been talking about it is that it looks very ominous. The joke is, is there a prison going in there?

Some of the kids right now are out there on the street now. Some of them are in the penitentiary, some are in jail or prison for robbing or murdering somebody. So if they're here to help us, I'm thankful for that.

thankful to finally be reunited with my wife and five children. I did my time in prison and have moved on with my life. I hope and pray that everyone will try to understand that my past is behind me and to please focus on my future and what I do from here on out.

My patients call that the prison of positive thinking. There is no truth at all to the idea that if you get sad, angry or frightened about cancer that you're giving in to it and allowing the cancer to grow.

Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who's miserable in it - men and women alike - and anyone who's suffered through difficult periods in marriage dreams of escape from it.

living conditions now are better in prison than at home. At one point we were concerned that they wouldn't want to leave.

I was treated by the prison guards as a guilty man. I don't want to go back again.

I was informed that there were 173 detainees held at an Interior Ministry prison and they appear to be malnourished,

I think he should be in prison the rest of his life without parole. I don't know how he can live with himself. I couldn't, and I just hope he realizes the people he's hurt, and then I hope justice comes through to make him pay for it.

I think he's a wannabe. He's ready to sacrifice his life at this point and become a martyr. In many ways, it would be more painful for him to just remain in prison and be forgotten.

I think more dissidents will be sentenced to prison in 2000 than last year.

Malcolm soon became a burglar, a drug dealer and a drug user. He was caught by the police and received a 10 year prison sentence.

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

We need an evaluation to determine why he does what I would call insane things. You don't put yourself in prison for the rest of your life -- in a cage -- for $33 worth of pizza.

I won't go back on my decision. I'm not afraid of prison, but there are even worse dangers.

I'd like to have a boyfriend in prison so I'd always know where he is.

Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces [in 1968] . The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush.

That wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I thought was right, that I thought it was cool, and I thought it was fun, and it was exciting at the time. It all led to me laying in a prison bunk by myself with no one to talk to but myself.

Most of our clients are suicidal, psychotic, bipolar, schizophrenic or sex offenders. They make an income of less than $3,000 a year and have been kicked off welfare. They need medicine, but cannot afford it. Many have been abused or in prison and have been addicted to crack and alcohol.

Michael should have been released for that crime long ago. But even though he's on heavy psychotropic medication, Michael has never been able to adjust to prison life.

We realize trade is very important to businesses, but it needs to be on an even level. You cannot expect an American worker to compete with young women and children in prison in China who are forced to work. How do you compete with that as a worker in the United States with a family and kids? The answer is, you don't.

We have a lot of people who apply and say they'll take anything from the prison program.

We are disappointed that they were all housed together. We are disappointed that their restrictions in prison weren't more stringent.

To go from working in a prison to living there is a serious reversal of fortune, ... Stealing from inmates is both outrageous and ridiculous. I hope this case, along with our other numerous convictions of public officials in the past three years, will send the strong message that people who embezzle money from the government always get caught, and in Saline County they face severe punishment.

we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system.

There are other people in prison in the state of Texas...convicted of arson with the same kind of evidence in play.

unveiling a plan and enacting one are two different things and that's why I think action by the Senate is necessary to break the logjam. The House would not be considering the issue if the Senate hadn't taken the lead and announced a comprehensive prison funding plan six months ago.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

We stayed with the prison bus, and once we were in New Orleans, we never saw any cops.

Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!

Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times!

When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?

You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

We want to be sure that he never gets out of prison again,

Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.

If it works, it works,' Kat told him. 'And if it doesn't?' he asked. She looked at him. 'If it doesn't, then I've heard Monaco has the nicest prisons in all of Europe.' 'It does,' both Hamish and Angus said in unison. And with that, it was decided.

By disobeying god, we escape from his totalitarian prison where you cannot ask any questions, where you must never question authority. We become our human selves,