Quotes and Sayings About Prison
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Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.
-- A. E. Housman -
Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.
-- Abraham PolonskySource : "Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here", 1969.
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Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.
-- Alan MooreSource : "Fictional character: V". "V for Vendetta". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1982 - 1986.
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The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
If it works, it works,' Kat told him. 'And if it doesn't?' he asked. She looked at him. 'If it doesn't, then I've heard Monaco has the nicest prisons in all of Europe.' 'It does,' both Hamish and Angus said in unison. And with that, it was decided.
-- Ally Carter -
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Not all prisons have bars
-- Amanda HockingSource : Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.238, Pan Macmillan
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings…
-- Angela DavisSource : Avery Gordon, Angela Davis (2015). “Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge, Power and People”, p.54, Routledge
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Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
-- Angela Davis -
First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
-- Angela Davis -
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I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
-- Angela Davis -
I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.
-- Angela Davis -
By disobeying god, we escape from his totalitarian prison where you cannot ask any questions, where you must never question authority. We become our human selves,
-- Ann Druyan -
When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness into freedom.
-- Anthony Venn-Brown -
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Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.
-- Anton Chekhov -
That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
-- Antonia Fraser -
I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.
-- Antonio Gramsci -
We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.
-- Augusto Pinochet -
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I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.
-- Ava DuVernay -
Prison has taught me that there is a part of you that no-one can ever take from you, and that is your heart.
-- Babar Ahmad -
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
-- Barbara DemingSource : Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”
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we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system.
-- Barbara EhrenreichSource : Barbara Ehrenreich (2008). “Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation”, Granta Books (UK)
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The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
-- Barry McCaffrey -
A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight — and when they come out, they’re gay.
-- Benjamin Carson -
Security without liberty is called prison.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.
-- Bernard Kerik -
Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards
-- Bob Dylan