Prison Quotes - page 3

Who would be so besotted as to die without having made at least the round of this, his prison? (Marguerite Yourcenar)
We're supposed to procreate and society, god knows, is ferocious on the subject. Heterosexuality is considered such a great and natural good that you have to execute people and put them in prison if they don't practice this glorious act. View quote
Gore Vidal
Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountains start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise. View quote
W. H. Auden
It is for him that is lonely or in prison to dream of fellowship, but for him that is of a fellowship to do and not to dream. View quote
William Morris
A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Loneliness feels like prison. View quote
Nâzım Hikmet
Welcome baby, It's your turn to live, They lie in wait for you, chicken pox, whooping cough, smallpox, Malaria, TB, heart disease, cancer, and so on. Unemployment, hunger, and so on. Train wrecks, bus accidents, plane crashes, work accidents, Earthquakes, floods, droughts, and so on. Heartbreak, alcoholism, and so on. Nightsticks, prison doors, and so on. They lie in wait for you, the atom bomb, and so on. Welcome baby, It's your turn to live. They lie in wait for you, socialism, communism, and so on. View quote
Nâzım Hikmet
The world itself is but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution. View quote
Walter Raleigh
The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp. View quote
David Cameron
When [Nelson Mandela] was in prison I admired him for his moral strength... Of his period in power I can see few results. Apartheid no longer exists, at least to all appearances, but no one understands what the new government in South Africa is doing. (Mengistu Haile Mariam)
Born in a prison, with burdens on our shoulders and our thoughts, we could not reach the end of a single day if the possibilities of ending it all did not incite us to begin the next day all over again. View quote
Emil Cioran
Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all. View quote
Alan Moore
Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer. View quote
Pieter Willem Botha
Ah, fortune and fame shall follow me ... and I shall dwell in the world of the chosen for a few moments of fleeting ecstasy; ere the seven burly lads turn into creditors and hustle me off to debtors' prison at last. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Today the Israeli government continues seizures of Palestinian land for settlements, military incursions into surrounding countries and denial of the right of Palestinians expelled by terror to return. Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, is a war criminal who should be in prison, not in office. Israel's own Kahan commission found that Sharon shared responsibility for the Sabra and Shatila massacres. View quote
Ken Livingstone
Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man. One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man. One whose mind is not free though alive, is no better than dead. Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison. View quote
Bell hooks
I am happy in my prison of passion. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces. The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush. (Bill Bryson)
Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed. View quote
David Brin
When you go to prison they forget it's your Constitution, too. View quote
Jimmy Hoffa
649. A beane in liberty is better than a comfit in prison. View quote
George Herbert
It is easy for most of us to keep our hands from picking and stealing when picking and stealing plainly lead to prison diet and prison garments. But when silks and satins come of it, and with the silks and satins general respect, the net result of honesty does not seem to be so secure. View quote
Anthony Trollope