Prison Quotes
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The cemetery is where a young hustla go to retire, and prison is where he goes to grow old.
Nikki Turner -
A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.
Eugene V. Debs
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If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in cities, towns, and hamlets, ofttimes by men who graduated with an education and equipment for just that sort of retributive service from some penal institution.
Eugene V. Debs -
Amalia had the unpredictability of a splinter, I couldn't impose on her the prison of a single adjective.
Elena Ferrante -
Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.
Evan Esar -
The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.
Eugene V. Debs -
Truth is a pursuit, it's a quest. And proof is certainly in the pudding in this particular instance, because the film, and the evidence accumulated in making the film, led to this man's release from prison. And that's hardly ever happened, if it's happened at all, in any other film that I can think of.
Errol Morris -
The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.
Tony Blair
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Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate that is seven to ten times that of any other democracy.
Eve Ensler -
If it were possible to escape from lonely experiences for a moment and stand back from the tree one would see the myriad bright worlds sparkling upon it. But only the greatest could do that. For all but the greatest their own experience was a prison house until the ending of the days. But one could know how bright was the light that carried all souls back to the light when for a moment one entered the world of a child.
Elizabeth Goudge -
Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.
Sufjan Stevens -
I'd like to have a boyfriend in prison so I'd always know where he is.
Carrie Snow -
Without faith your mind gets fouled. Look at Cervantes. He was a man of faith and nothing fouled Cervantes, not even war and slavery. He wrote the first part of Don Quixote in prison.
Elizabeth Goudge -
A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight - and when they come out, they're gay.
Benjamin Carson
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Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Right believing is a light that illuminates the path to freedom out of this prison.
Joseph Prince -
The general public knows practically nothing about the prison and appears to be little concerned about how it is managed and how prisoners are treated.
Eugene V. Debs