Prison Quotes

• Legalized drugs would cause dislocations in the US economy - the prison industry for example and tens of billions spent annually on drug enforcement. But because the US economy is so large, this would be a minor blow, hardly as severe as the ultimate nightmare for the US economy, global peace, which would shutter its death industry commonly called the military/industrial complex.

  

  Charles Bowden
  • Military
  • Drug
  • Economy

• Into this new love, die your way begins on the other side become the sky take an axe to the prison wall, escape walk out like someone suddenly born into color do it now.

  

  Rumi
  • Love
  • Way
  • Die

• While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Soul
  • Free
  • Criminal elements

• Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Prison
  • Veels

• The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Soul
  • Prison
  • Anatomy

• In the Sapient tongue he said softly, ‘Tell me, Master, did you know Incarceron was tiny?’ ‘Is it?’ Sapphique replied in the same language, his green eyes as he looked up lit by deep points of flame. ‘To you, perhaps. Not to its Prisoners. Every prison is a universe for its inmates. And think, Jared Sapiens. Might not the Realm also be tiny, swinging from the watchchain of some being in a world even vaster?

  

  Catherine Fisher
  • World
  • Universe
  • Language

• I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life.

  

  Gary Gilmore
  • Life
  • Prison
  • Wasted

• Closing the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is a promise President Barack Obama made it but has yet to fulfill.

  

  Audie Cornish
  • President
  • Promise
  • Prison

• Grit is not synonymous with hard work. It involves a certain single-mindedness. An ungritty prison inmate will mount a daring new escape attempt every month, but a gritty prison inmate will tunnel his way out one spoonful of concrete at a time. Grit

  

  Chip Heath
  • Certain
  • Grit
  • Concrete

• I feel like I’m living in a prison. There are so many things I may not experience. I cannot go swimming, can’t visit relatives, can’t get a job, can’t have a boyfriend. I see so much of life I cannot have. I am living in a veritable prison.

  

  Candy Darling
  • May
  • Feels
  • Jobs

• I've faced worse things in my life than prison

  

  CeCe McDonald
  • Things
  • Prison
  • Worse

• After six prison commitments, at the end of those, I was more broken than when I went into the system.

  

  Susan Burton
  • Broken
  • System
  • Prison

• Illustrious confessors of Jesus Christ, a Christian finds in prison the same joys as the prophets tasted in the desert. Call it not a dungeon, but a solitude. When the soul is in heaven, the body feels not the weight of fetters; it carries the whole man along with it.

  

  Tertullian
  • Desert
  • Jesus Christ
  • Joys

• I have been shown in darkness, light, and have learned that even in prison, one can be free. I am grateful. I have come to see that there is good in every situation, sometimes we just have to look for it.

  

  Kayla Mueller
  • Sometimes
  • Situation
  • Darkness

• One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.

  

  Plato
  • Prison
  • Slave
  • Free Person

• Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and thinking about the next crime? Or do we want them having a little purpose in life and learning a skill?

  

  John Ensign
  • Thinking
  • Purpose
  • Crime

• I think corporations are a whole lot different than people. I mean, I don't know a corporation would be put in prison. I do know people would be put in prison.

  

  Jon Tester
  • People
  • Prison
  • Corporation

• 'The prison' begins well before its doors. It begins as soon as you leave your house - and even before.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • House
  • Prison
  • Doors

• Mandela once told me that he lived on hatred when he went into prison because he was young and he was being abused and he was out there cracking those rocks all day and he said after about 11 years he realized that they'd already taken about everything they could take from him except his mind and his heart...

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Mandela

• Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

  

  Richard Lovelace
  • Prison
  • Caged
  • Incarceration

• The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard.

  

  George Gilder
  • Belief
  • Wealth
  • Stealing

• In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those which become fixated on particular tastes or practices (the sexuality of the invert, the gerontophile, the fetishist), those which, in a diffuse manner, invest relationships (the sexuality of doctor and patient, teacher and student, psychiatrist and mental patient), those which haunt spaces (the sexuality of the home, the school, the prison)- all form the correlate of exact procedures of power.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • School
  • Relationships
  • Sexualities

• If people are being upstanding citizens of the Republic, then you have to widen the net to incarcerate them. This explains why America's prisons are full of nonviolent offenders - a perfect example of American exceptionalism.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Perfect
  • Prison

• Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • Mind
  • Prison
  • Sanctuary

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