Prison Quotes - Page 18

• Bertrand Russell used to employ the method of "evidence against interest"; in other words of deciding that a critique of capital punishment, say, carried more weight if it came from a prison governor. (My friend John O'Sullivan puts it like this: If the pope says he believes in God, he's only doing his job; if he says he doesn't believe in God, he may be on to something.)

  Christopher Hitchens

  Jobs, Believe, Punishment

  "What Sharon Did" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. January 5, 2006.

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• I don't have any intentions to return to England. I would go back if I could return as a free person. I don't want to return to prison.

  Ronald Biggs

  Want, Return, England

  "Ronnie Biggs's best quotes while on the run" by the Press Association, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2013.

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• Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch.

  Craig Charles

  Circles, Circle Of Friends, I Can

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• I never imagined that I'd be out of prison.

  Danny Trejo

  Source: collider.com

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• Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.

  Peter Benenson

  Government, World, Opinion

  The Observer, May 28, 1961.

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• When you take the sires of the cage apart, you do not hurt the bird, but you help it. You let it out of its prison. How do you you know that death does not help me when it takes the wires of my cage down?-that it does not release me, and put me into some better place and better condition of life?

  Randolph Sinks Foster

  Life, Hurt, Bird

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• Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Practice, Different

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• There was a lot of rebelliousness, without focus, in my younger years. And even when people ask me, "Oh you went to prison and you went to college for a couple years?" I'm like "Yeah, I learned more in prison than I think I ever learned in college." That's the sad truth.

  Immortal Technique

  Couple, College, Thinking

  Source: www.ballerstatus.com

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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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• It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to you, they have no authority over you. These maniacs have no authority over us. And they might be able to put our bodies in prison, but they can't put our spirits in prison.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Break Up, Country, Lying

  Cindy Sheehan (2005). “Not One More Mother's Child”, Koa Books Incorporated

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• Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Moving On, Years, Punishment

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• Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.

  Raegan Butcher

  Army, Years, Seven

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• Smuggling poems out of prison in the soles of mt shoes i'm way past finding salvation in the arms of a woman, I look out my window and see burning flowers and starving armies but when I look up into the night sky I see the souls of dead heroes

  Raegan Butcher

  Flower, Hero, Army

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• hen we mourn those who die young — those who have been robbed of time — we weep for lost joys. We weep for opportunities and pleasures we ourselves have never known. We feel sure that somehow that young body would have known the yearning delight for which we searched in vain all our lives.

  Josephine Hart

  Believe, Opportunity, Joy

  "Damage: a novel".

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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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• 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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• 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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• Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of the acceptable into the nonacceptable, from respectability into the criminal community of the monster who was an enemy to the people.

  Marguerite Young

  Long, People, Community

  Marguerite Young (1999). “Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs”, Knopf

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• You never know you are in a prison unless you try the door

  Joe Bageant

  Doors, Trying, Knows

  Joe Bageant (2008). “Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War”, p.173, Broadway Books

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• If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Children, School, Pay

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.262, Da Capo Press

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• We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Despair, Blank

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.90, Lulu.com

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• I'd like to have a boyfriend in prison so I'd always know where he is.

  Carrie Snow

  Knows

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• The prison is the state writ small.

  Mason Cooley

  States

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• I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.

  Hosea Ballou

  Punishment, Judging, Form

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