Prison Quotes
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He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
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I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.
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I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
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One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.
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When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.
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People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler.
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The first thing I did that was at all in the public eye, other than on stage, was 'Oz,' in which I played the head of the Aryan Brotherhood in a maximum-security prison.
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Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.
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Now it is one thing to say I say it that people shouldn't consume psychoactive drugs. It is entirely something else to condone marijuana laws, the application of which resulted, in 1995, in the arrest of 588,963 Americans. Why are we so afraid to inform ourselves on the question?
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At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
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The federal prison population increased by almost 800 percent between 1980 and 2013, often at a far faster rate than the Bureau of Prisons could accommodate in their own facilities.
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Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.
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Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
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The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.
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Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.
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I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power.
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I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorney for a long time so I was always hearing stories about prisoners and prison guards.
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We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as "nonparty," in prison.
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A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.
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I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.
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You can't be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it.
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Welcome to the bottom of hell. They say pain is a prison, let me out of my cell.
