Prison Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• Awakenings are always terrifying as they force you to realize your past has been lived in confinement, the most disturbing part is when you recognize that the shackle holding you down are largely once you have placed upon yourself, the prison is self constructed

  Dean Karnazes

  Past, Self, Awakening

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• One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.

  Plato

  Slave, Persons

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• For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman; and those who release her from her cobwebbed shelf and teach her to live with men have the merit of liberating, if not of discovering, her.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Purpose, Might

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.199

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• Everywhere - all over Africa and South America - you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they're terrifying, because they are the death of the soul. This is the prison this planet is being turned into.

  J. G. Ballard

  America, People, Soul

  October 30, 1982 Interview, Re/Search, No. 8/9, 1984.

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• Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.

  Juvenal

  Mean, Bravery, Transportation

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• 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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• God keepe me from foure houses, an Vsurers, a Taverne, a Spittle, and a Prison.

  George Herbert

  House

  George Herbert (1959). “The works of George Herbert”

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• The prison is the state writ small.

  Mason Cooley

  States

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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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• 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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• I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.

  Isadora Duncan

  Mind, Example, Body

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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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• I can do more good outside of prison... This country is worth dying for.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Nsa, Dying

  "Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers reader questions". www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2013.

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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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• 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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• 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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• As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.

  George Sand

  Concerned

  George Sand (1977). “The Intimate Journal of George Sand”, Chicago Review Press

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• When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

  Fernando Flores

  Past, Figure Skating, Embrace

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• One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about.

  Michael Ende

  Children, Doors, Numbers

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• Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.

  Bernard Kerik

  Eye, Dying

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• Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

  Ellen Wilkinson

  Country, House, Might

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• There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.

  Pasquier Quesnel

  Self, Punishment, Abandoned

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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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• 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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