Prison Quotes - Page 14

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

  Michel Foucault

  Population

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• It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Party, Heart, Years

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• No man will be kept in hell loner than is necessary to bring him to a fitness for something better. When he reaches that stage the prison doors will open and there will be rejoicing among the hosts who welcome him into a better state.

  James E. Talmage

  Men, Doors, Loner

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• It's difficult to seek other people's love. It's deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.

  Byron Katie

  People, Genuine, Difficult

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.18, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The soul is the prison of the body.

  Michel Foucault

  Soul, Body

  Michel Foucault, Jeremy Carrette (2013). “Religion and Culture”, p.13, Routledge

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• Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Mind, Vices, Sanctuary

  Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.44, Penguin

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• I only hope those rumors I hear about what goes on in prison are greatly
  exaggerated.

  Homer

  Rumor, Goes On, Exaggerated

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• Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heart, Punishment, Vices

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.189

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• I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.

  Sam Sheppard

  Relationship, Mother, Father

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• We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Community, Three, Felons

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• We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Liberty, Want

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.335, University of Georgia Press

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• Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our­ selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of the prison as disconnected from our own lives. This is even true for some of us, women as well as men, who have already experienced imprisonment.

  Angela Davis

  Men, Thinking, Self

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• The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have become so inured to its presence that they could not con­ceive of society without it. Within the history of the United States the system of slavery immediately comes to mind.

  Angela Davis

  People, Challenges, Mind

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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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• Make not thyself the judge of any man.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Judging, Thyself

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.810, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Eye, Men, Hands

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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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• Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Purpose, Horror, Mere

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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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• Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

  Oscar Wilde

  Brother, Men, Bars

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.213, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a room with doors open and one with doors locked. The first might be a home, but the second could only be a prison.

  Gloria Steinem

  Home, Doors, Different

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.342, Open Road Media

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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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• There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Attitude, Ugly, Handsome

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.277, Oxford University Press, USA

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

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Arrivals, Artist

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