Prison Quotes - Page 13

• Of course nothing is ever done about a [presidential] commission report, except, they say, once a man at the state prison for the criminally insane actually read one once clear through. Then he did something about it. He made a bonfire that lasted a week.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Presidential, Insane

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• Parades should be classed as a Nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. They stop more work, inconvenience more people, stop more traffic, cause more accidents, entail more expense, and commit and cause I don't remember the other hundred misdemeanors.

  Will Rogers

  People, Nuisance, Causes

  Will Rogers (1974). “The Illiterate Digest”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Unless your freedom turns into a creative realization, you will feel sad. Because you will see that you are free-your chains are broken, and you are no longer in prison; you are standing under the starry night, completely free. But where do you go?

  Rajneesh

  Freedom, Night, Broken

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• I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

  Valentino Rossi

  Ferrari, Driving, Fame

  "Ferrari is the ultimate challenge for me" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2005.

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• Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

  Suge Knight

  Character, People, Judging

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• I’m not for profiling people on the color of their skin or on their religion. But I would take into account where they've been traveling and perhaps you might indirectly have to take into account whether or not they've been going to radical political speeches by religious leaders. It wouldn't be that they are Islamic. But if someone is attending speeches from someone who is promoting the violent overthrow of our government, that’s really an offense that we should be going after. They should be deported or put in prison.

  Rand Paul

  Religious, Islamic, Government

  "Does Rand Paul Really Want to Imprison People for Attending Speeches?". "The Sean Hannity Show", reason.com. June 2, 2011.

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• Let's say that you commit a crime, you get caught, you might get sent to prison. It's going to be bad. But if you get caught spying, you're literally hanged the next morning.

  Jamie Bell

  Morning, Next, Might

  "Jamie Bell's History Lesson"". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 9, 2014.

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• How much has spending most of the offseason in prison affected Jamal Lewis' poor start?.

  Cris Collinsworth

  Affection, Poor, Offseason

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• I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society.

  Jack Abbott

  Feels, Ifs

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

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• Obesity is a prison; in the US we spend more to treat type 2 diabetes each year than is spent on education.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Type 2 Diabetes, Years, Obesity

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• Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

  Michel Foucault

  Population

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• They let dangerous men out of prison now, yes sir, I'm afraid it's so. Cause they're over crowded and it was only his fifth offense.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Men, Dangerous Man, Politics

  Song: Mr. Lincoln

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• Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Writing, Thinking, Leaving

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• One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Running, Men, Solitude

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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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• The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort of homely routine.That is ,by the way, why most prison memoirs are unreadable.The difficulty of conveying to the reader an idea of a nightmare world from which he has emerged makes the author depict the prisoner's state of mind as an uninterruped continuity of despair.He fears to appear frivolous or to spoil his effect by admitting that even in the depths of misery cheerfulness keeps breaking in.

  Arthur Koestler

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

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• The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Wall, Character, Gun

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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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• Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.

  Paula Cole

  Music, Thank God, Emotion

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• Every single ancient wisdom and religion will tell you the same thing - don't live entirely for yourself, live for other people. Don't get stuck inside your own ego, because it will become a prison in no time flat.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Sacrifice, People, Ego

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• Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?

  Zadie Smith

  Thinking, People, Wish

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• If somebody's in prison for non-violence, drug usage, and never committed a hard crime, they should be pardoned and let out.

  Ron Paul

  Drug, Violence, Crime

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• A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

  Neal Shusterman

  Pedestal, Insidious

  Neal Shusterman (2014). “UnSouled”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Christians are meant to have the same vocation as their King, that of cross-bearers. It is this conscience of a high calling and of partnership with Jesus which brings gladness in tribulations, which makes Christians enter prisons for their faith with the joy of a bridegroom entering the bridal room.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Christian, Jesus, Kings

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