Prison Quotes - Page 19

• Dare to do something worth of exile and prison if you mean to be anybody. Virtue is praised and left to freeze.
  [Lat., Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum
  Si vis esse aliquis. Probitas laudatur et alget.]

  Juvenal

  Mean, Virtue, Dare

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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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• What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of all political action is coercion; even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Real, Believe, Gun

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.275, SUNY Press

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• Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.

  Jeremy Collier

  Envy, Despair, Arms

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• Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations.

  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

  Jail, Married, Drawbacks

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• The prison is the state writ small.

  Mason Cooley

  States

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• An enlightened mind is not hoodwinked; it is not shut up in a gloomy prison till it thinks the walls of its dungeon the limits of the universe, and the reach of its own chain the outer verge of intelligence.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Thinking, Mind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2238, Delphi Classics

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• California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a civilization.

  Molly Ivins

  Civilization, California, Doe

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• Suddenly here was this somewhat roly-poly elderly, northern Italian peasant on the chair of Saint Peter and he was accessible - and he made himself accessible, he went to prisons, he went to hospitals, he went to the shrine of Loreto.

  George Weigel

  Italian, Elderly, Saint

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• A beane in liberty is better then a comfit in prison.

  George Herbert

  Liberty

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.348

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• Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.

  Jessica Mitford

  Wall, Would Be, Convicts

  Jessica Mitford (1973). “Kind and usual punishment: the prison business”, Vintage

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• [On travel:] Who would be so besotted as to die without having made at least the round of this, his prison?

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Travel, Would Be, Made

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  America, Program, Reaching

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2008). “Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation”, Granta Books (UK)

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• It is precisely because a child's feelings are so strong that they cannot be repressed without serious consequences. The stronger a prisoner is, the thicker the prison walls have to be, which impede or completely prevent later emotional growth.

  Alice Miller

  Strong, Children, Wall

  Alice Miller (2008). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Third Edition”, p.33, Hachette UK

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• I wrote 90 percent of the record in prison. A lot of people wonder, "How the hell did you do that?" I just pretty much played drums on my legs with my hands and while I did that, I would hum the guitar parts and sing the melodies of the songs.

  Ronnie Radke

  Song, Hands, Guitar

  Source: archive.azcentral.com

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• Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?

  Jessica Mitford

  Roles, Paradox, Reverse

  Jessica Mitford (1973). “Kind and usual punishment: the prison business”, Not Avail

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• I never realized how much I've become dependent on human approval until God took it away. I didn't even realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of. God showed me Jesus plus nothing equals everything. And everything minus Jesus equals nothing. That set me free.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Jesus, Acceptance, Self

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• All this [Soviet labor camp for political prisoners] brings about one marked change in your physical appearance; by the end of your first year, you will have what are known as 'zek's eyes.' The look in a zek's eyes is impossible to describe, but once encountered, it is never forgotten. When you emerge, your friends, embracing you, will exclaim: 'Your eyes! Your eyes have changed!' And not one of your tormentors will be able to bear your scrutiny. They will turn away from it, like beaten dogs.

  Irina Ratushinskaya

  Dog, Eye, Years

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• Dachau has been my own lifelong point of no return. Between the moment when I walked through the gate of that prison, with its infamous motto, 'Arbeit Macht Frei,' and when I walked out at the end of a day that had no ordinary scale of hours, I was changed, and how I looked at the human condition, the world we live in, changed ... Years of war had taught me a great deal, but war was nothing like Dachau. Compared to Dachau, war was clean.

  Martha Gellhorn

  War, Years, Holocaust

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• you must not, under any circumstances, allow yourself to hate. Not because your tormentors have not earned it. But if you allow hatred to take root, it would flourish and spread during your years in the camps, driving out everything else, and ultimately corrode and warp your soul. You will no longer be yourself, your identity will be destroyed, all that will remain will be a hysterical, maddened and bedevilled husk of the human being that once was.

  Irina Ratushinskaya

  Being Yourself, Hate, Years

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• Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.

  Pierre Charron

  Cities, Bird, Soul

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• I've gone into prisons, I've gone into schools, I've gone into corporations, all over the world. It doesn't matter where you go, people are essentially the same. Our culture is different, but culture is nothing but group habit, culture is paradigm and when you get past the culture, people are essentially the same.

  Bob Proctor

  School, Past, People

  Source: pavlinapapalouka.com

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• Prisoners do different things. Some write, some read. Some engage in athletic events and working out and some do all of that. Some get involved in the religious groups that they're part of. Some get involved in hobbies that are permitted in prison. There are plenty of ways to stay busy. You're never going to survive in prison unless you start getting busy.

  Jack Abramoff

  Religious, Writing, Work Out

  "Jack Abramoff's prison advice for Bob McDonnell". Interview with Jeremy Diamond, www.cnn.com. January 6, 2015.

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• Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate that is seven to ten times that of any other democracy.

  Eve Ensler

  Prison Population, People, Democracy

  Eve Ensler (2006). “Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World”, p.124, Villard

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• Mexico has many more kidnappings than the United States. The U.S. has very few kidnappings.The reason is, in the United States, we don't pay ransom. We turn it over to the FBI. They catch the person. And then, of course, we used to have the death penalty for it. Now it's life in prison. In Mexico, everybody pays. It's a business.

  Rudy Giuliani

  United States, Mexico, Ransom

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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