Prison Quotes

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Freedom, Medical, Care

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo

School, Door, Closes

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston Churchill

Nothing, Person, Democracy

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Oscar Wilde

Lessons, Learns

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Nelson Mandela

Country, Become, President

Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.
Jim Morrison

Sex, Soul, Said

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cannot, Fame, Tongue

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Henry David Thoreau

Government, True, Place

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. Thompson

Truth, Today, Past

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Bertrand Russell

Respect, Opinion, Keep

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
H. L. Mencken

School, Sunday, Children

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
W. C. Fields

Father, State, Expert

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Mike Tyson

Deep, Read, Books

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
George W. Bush

Life, America, Path

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
Malcolm Forbes

History, Sing, Hire

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.
Lech Walesa

Violence, Union, Shall

I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.
Suge Knight

Time, Mind, Heart

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Beauty, Mind, Woman

Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.
Lil Wayne

Love, God, Find

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
Robert Anton Wilson

Choice, Plan, Security

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
William Glasser

Time, School, Job

The White House is the finest prison in the world.
Harry S. Truman

House, White, Finest

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Simone Weil

Mind, Language, Enclosed

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.
Philip Zimbardo

Life, Understand, Students

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness, Human, Another

The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.
George W. Bush

Once, Found, Iraq

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, While

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
Muhammad Iqbal

Understand, Destiny, Before

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
Peter Ustinov

Live, Mind, Once

I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of controlled substance.
Pat Robertson

Small, Young, Wind

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