Prison Quotes - Page 11

• Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times!

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Soup

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• The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Stones, Infamous

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• I get so ticked off at you intellectually lazy people who think that the government is God, that every dollar they get or spend is somehow sacred. There is more fraud and waste and misuse. If the federal government were held accountable to the law as corporations are held accountable, half the federal government would be in prison.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Government, Law

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• Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?

  Cynthia Ozick

  Freedom, Gun, Men

  Cynthia Ozick (1987). “The Messiah of Stockholm: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the best and the worst ahead of time but that it was easy to take a step you would reproach yourself for-all this freed the prisoner from any bondage, made him calmer, and even ennobled him.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Fate, Abdication, Steps

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• When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Why Not, Graves, Edges

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• Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round about 1894. With their jangling keys, nasty suits, revolting beards, moustaches and tinted spectacles, estate agents roam the land causing perturbation and despair. If you try and kill them, you're put in prison: if you try and talk to them, you vomit. There's only one thing worse than an estate agent but at least that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed. Estate agents. Love them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

  Stephen Fry

  Home, Keys, Land

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• Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience.

  Aldous Huxley

  Believe, Government, Hypnosis

  Letter to George Orwell. "Letters of Aldous Huxley". Book edited by Grover Smith, 1969.

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• 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

  People, Littles, Concerned

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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

  Men, Cities, People

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• In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast stretches yet to be covered before the prison becomes, if it ever does, an institution for the reclamation and rehabilitation of erring and unfortunate men and women.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Men, Progress Of Society, Doe

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• The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Should, Institutions, Humans

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• All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.

  Edna O'Brien

  Self, Cells, People

  Edna O'Brien (1978). “Seven novels and other short stories”, HarperCollins

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• Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.

  Ovid

  Years, Taught, Crime

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• Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.

  Tupac Shakur

  Inspirational, Greed, Generations

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• Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

  Ethel Smyth

  Dog, Book, Winter

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• We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Political, Exile, Internals

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• I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn't even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons - I just had to be willing to make the phone calls.

  Lisa Gardner

  Unique, Phones, Suspense

  "Cosmo's Book Club: Meet Your Next Must-Read". Interview with Gabrielle Frank, www.cosmopolitan.com. March 9, 2010.

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• Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Arrivals, Artist

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• In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!

  Joel McHale

  Makeup, Juice, Use

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build

  Talib Kweli

  Creating, Mind, Crime

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• I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series.

  James Belushi

  Car, Thieves, World

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• If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.

  Steven Bochco

  Prison Time, Done, Taste

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• The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.

  Paul Gauguin

  Stupid, Struggle, Men

  Paul Gauguin (1985). “The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin”, p.93, Routledge

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• That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.

  John Donne

  Lying, Men, Soul

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Ecstasy'

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