Prison Quotes - Page 28

• I have always envied those Christians who were martyred for Christ Jesus our Lord. What a privilege to live for our Lord and to die for Him as well. I am filled to overflowing with joy; I am not only satisfied to be in prison ... but am ready to give my life for the sake of Jesus Christ.

  Mehdi Dibaj

  Christian, Jesus, Giving

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• True Socialism, in which everyone is truly equal, does not just resemble a prison - it is a prison. It can not exist unless it is surrounded by high walls, by watchtowers and by guard-dogs, for people always want to escape from any socialist regime, just as they do from a prison. If you continue your attempts to establish a model society you will need to build walls around it. You will be forced to do so sooner or later by the flood of refugees.

  Viktor Suvorov

  Dog, Wall, People

  "Inside the Soviet Army". Book by Viktor Suvorov, 1982.

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• Nobody is free… Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons.

  Ted Simon

  Children, Wife, Parent

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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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• 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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• 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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• The sick man must follow his illness to the place where it is treated... He is set aside in one of the technical and secret zones (hospitals, prisons, refuse dumps) which relieve the living of everything that might hinder the chain of production and consumption, and which repair and select what can be sent back up to the surface of progress.

  Michel de Certeau

  Men, Sick, Secret

  "Arts de Faire".

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

  Frank Herbert

  Jobs, Police, Kind

  Frank Herbert (1984). “God Emperor of Dune”

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• While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent and permanent type of expression, as old as literature itself. There will always be a certain small percentage of persons who feel a burning curiosity about unknown outer space, and a burning desire to escape from the prison-house of the known and the real into those enchanted lands of incredible adventure and infinite possibilities which dreams open up to us, and which things like deep woods, fantastic urban towers, and flaming sunsets momentarily suggest.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Dream, Real, Writing

  H.P. Lovecraft, Digital Papyrus (2014). “H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)”, p.1753, eBookIt.com

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• The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard.

  George Gilder

  Belief, Wealth, Stealing

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• Obviously, there are people who constrict themselves and build walls around themselves, whether it's from a moral standpoint or a patriotic standpoint, or just plain old conformity, and who therefore live in those little prisons, and when things breach those walls, it's shocking for them.

  George Carlin

  Wall, Patriotic, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's so hard for me to even acknowledge America without talking about race. If you look at our society, if you look at the prisons, if you look at the poverty and which side of the line the majority of people are, we have to acknowledge how we divide ourselves up, that there's racism alive in this country. And it's not in the law. It's in our minds. And that's what we have to actively battle.

  Dave Matthews

  Country, Race, Talking

  Source: www.cnn.com

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