Prison Quotes - Page 31

• Now I realize that it isn't the miracle that creates the believer. Instead, we are all believers. We believe that the illusion of the material world is completely real. That belief is our only prison. It prevents us from making the journey into the unknown.

  Deepak Chopra

  Real, Believe, Journey

  Deepak Chopra (2008). “How To Know God”, p.215, Random House

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• ... an institution cannot be run progressively on a basis of fear.

  Mary B. Harris

  Running, Fear, Institutions

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• ... imprisonment itself, entailing loss of liberty, loss of citizenship, separation from family and loved ones, is punishment enough for most individuals, no matter how favorable the circumstances under which the time is passed.

  Mary B. Harris

  Loss, Punishment, Liberty

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• Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.

  Will Rogers

  Nuisance, Parades, Should

  Will Rogers, Steven K. Gragert, Judy G. Buckholz, Oklahoma State University, Will Rogers Memorial Commission (1974). “The Writings of Will Rogers”

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• If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning to regard our plight or predicament in this society as one of a prison inmate.

  Malcolm X

  America, People, Black

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• Religion is a bell jar; you cannot find God in that jar, because it is your bell jar, you have created it! Break the glass prison and get fresh air, elevate your intelligence! Wake up and open your eyes; see the truth beyond your prison! If you can't break the glass, don't worry; science will do it for you!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Eye, Science, Glasses

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• My kid wants to be a prison warden when he grows up so he can put thumb tacks on the electric chairs.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Family, Growing Up

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• I knew of a man who was sent to the State Prison for twenty-five years. All these years he was always thinking of his home, and counting by years, months, and days, the time till he should
  be free, and see his family and friends once more.

  Harriet Tubman

  Home, Men, Thinking

  "Harriet, The Moses of Her People". Book by Sarah H. Bradford, 1886.

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• Christianity...made, for nearly 1,500 years, persecution, religious wars, massacres, theological feuds and bloodshed, heresy huntings and heretic burnings, prisons, dungeons, anathemas, curses, opposition to science, hatred of liberty, spiritual bondage, the life without love or laughter.

  M. M. Mangasarian

  Spiritual, Religious, Laughter

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• A single thought can revolutionize your life as it did mine. A single thought can make you rich or it can land you in prison for the rest of your life.

  Earl Nightingale

  Land, Rest Of Your Life, Rich

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• In Russia one can be as pure as can be and still lose everything in a flash and end up in prison.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Russia, Ends, Flash

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• An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.

  Joe Biden

  Mean, Abusive Relationship, Abusive

  Interview with Liz Brody and Wendy Naugle, www.glamour.com. May 1, 2011.

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• Association bring you into the larger world of other people and things. Not having that is a kind of prison, a prison of such a limited consciousness, of such a limited frame of reference and association.

  Hank Azaria

  People, World, Association

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I was certainly naïve about the judicial system in America. There's a lot of people who are in prison who are innocent. The system is very flawed.

  Sam Rockwell

  America, People, Innocent

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• I don't believe in the death penalty. I believe that there are other people as we speak right now in prison, wrongfully accused, who could serve such a fate. That is injustice at its greatest.

  Hilary Swank

  Believe, Fate, People

  "Conviction - Hilary Swank interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat.

  Antony Starr

  Long, People, Comfort

  Source: collider.com

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• During the Soviet era, private ownership was a crime punishable with up to five years in prison.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Years, Eras, Crime

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When I was in prison, a Colombian drug lord, offered me $5 million in cash to manipulate a computer system so that he would be released. I turned him down.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Drug, Would Be, Cash

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It seemed that most women, because they had been caught, gave up on the movement and were just trying to pass the time until they could be released. Men in prison struggled to maintain their pride, including their manhood, because that is all they had left after everything had been taken away.

  Assata Shakur

  Taken, Pride, Men

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• I used to get letters from guys in prison. Anymore now I don't even open them. They'd ask me to please sign a couple of cards for their children. Then I see them on eBay two weeks later. Or the people that write and say, "You is one of my favorite cartoonists. I would like a drawing, please." I guess they encourage inmates to write letters to celebrities. It's like a way to make money by selling autographs or something. Give me a break.

  Mike Royer

  Children, Couple, Writing

  "Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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• I believe that pain and suffering can either be a prison or a prism.

  Tim Hansel

  Pain, Believe, Joy

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• Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, House, Rooms

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.71, A&C Black

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• India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wall, Mind, India

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• When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  May, Palaces, Operations

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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• Before my first novel, I was dating a woman who later went to prison for bashing a guy with a hammer.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Dating, Guy, Firsts

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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