Prison Quotes - Page 4

• Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

  Marc Lamont Hill

  Past, Jail, Government

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• The war on drugs has been the engine of mass incarceration. Drug convictions alone constituted about two-thirds of the increase in the federal prison population and more than half of the increase in the state prison population between 1985 and 2000, the period of our prison system's most dramatic expansion.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Prison Population, Two

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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

  Peter Ustinov

  Life, Education, Mind

  Peter Ustinov (1978). “Dear Me”, Penguin Books

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• There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

  Upton Sinclair

  Men, Desire, Bars

  Upton Sinclair (2015). “The Jungle: A Novel”, p.303, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Equality, Class, Diversity

  Speech at trial, Cleveland, Ohio, 14 Sept. 1918

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

  W. C. Fields

  Father, Science, Experts

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• It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man's body is not his prison, his shell his exterior, but man himself. Man does not "have" a body; he does not "have" a soul; rather he "is" body and soul. Man in the beginning is really his body. He is one. He is his body, as Christ is completely his body, as the Church is the body of Christ

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Taken, Men, Soul

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1983). “The martyred Christian: 160 readings from Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, Scribner

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• I'm going to do the time and I am going to do it the right way

  Paris Hilton

  Way, Right Way

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• We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Spiritual, Spring, Self

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2009). “An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith”, p.93, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

  Oscar Wilde

  Eye, Men, Blue

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 1, st. 3 (1898)

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• Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

  John Ortberg

  Gratitude, Grateful, Self

  John Ortberg (2008). “When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box”, p.149, Zondervan

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• He is coming! He is coming! Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom.

  William Edmondstoune Aytoun

  Hero, Rooms, Doom

  1848 Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and other Poems,'The Execution of Montrose', stanza14.

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• Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison.

  Charles Dickens

  'Pickwick Papers' (1837) ch. 40

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• The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who "disappeared". That's what the candle is for

  Peter Benenson

  Rights, Amnesty International, Way

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• Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.

  Edwin Arnold

  Freedom, Men, Deliverance

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• 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

  Literature, Might, Soil

  1850 The Scarlet Letter, ch.1.

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• We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

  John Donne

  Mother, Wall, Jail

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.280, Oxford University Press, USA

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

  Richard Lovelace

  Wall, Angel, Iron

  "To Althea, from Prison" l. 25 (1649)

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• He has done it. With Jesus, God’s rescue operation has been put into effect once and for all. A great door has swung open in the cosmos which can never again be shut. It’s the door to the prison where we’ve been kept chained up. We are offered freedom: freedom to experience God’s rescue for ourselves, to go through the open door and explore the new world to which we now have access.
  In listening to Jesus, we discover whose voice it is that has echoed around the hearts and minds of the human race all along.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Heart, Race

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• 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, Women, Infancy Is

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 3 (1792)

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• OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Jail, Doors

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.154, 谷月社

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• How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end up in prison?

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Children, School, Cities

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• Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity.

  Peter Benenson

  Country, Government, Two

  The Amnesty International Annual Report (p. 22), 2002.

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• Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

  Jack Abbott

  School, Reform, Causes

  Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

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