Prison Quotes - Page 38

• The soul is the prison of the body.

  Michel Foucault

  Soul, Body

  Michel Foucault, Jeremy Carrette (2013). “Religion and Culture”, p.13, Routledge

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• Are you searching for the river of your soul?
  Then come out of your prison.
  Leave the stream
  and join the river
  that flows into the ocean.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Rivers, Soul

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• The only way I thought I could do a greatest hits album is to do it in a prison where they have no f**king idea who I am. I'd do what I consider the best of those old, early CDs before I did DVDs. A women's prison would be even better, but it has to be English-speaking.

  Doug Stanhope

  Kings, Cds, Ideas

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• We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think of 'success' as synonymous with, or at least dependent upon, 'schooling,' but historically that isn’t true in either an intellectual or a financial sense. And plenty of people throughout the world today find a way to educate themselves without resorting to a system of compulsory secondary schools that all too often resemble prison.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Country, School, Thinking

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• Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?

  Zadie Smith

  Thinking, People, Wish

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• Used books are the sluts of the literary world. Passed around from person to person, spreading their pages for anyone, getting cheaper and cheaper until eventually they end up in prison.

  Stephen Colbert

  Book, World, Pages

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• The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort of homely routine.That is ,by the way, why most prison memoirs are unreadable.The difficulty of conveying to the reader an idea of a nightmare world from which he has emerged makes the author depict the prisoner's state of mind as an uninterruped continuity of despair.He fears to appear frivolous or to spoil his effect by admitting that even in the depths of misery cheerfulness keeps breaking in.

  Arthur Koestler

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

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• Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build

  Talib Kweli

  Creating, Mind, Crime

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• My father always said I would do something big one day.'I've got a feeling about you, John Osbourne,' he'd tell me, after he'd had a few beers.'You're either going to do something very special, or you're going to go to prison.'
  And he was right, my old man.
  
  I was in prison before my eighteenth birthday.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Father, Beer, Men

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• Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Liberty, Faces, Ifs

  Leonardo da Vinci (2015). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.1240, Leonardo da Vinci

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• If somebody's in prison for non-violence, drug usage, and never committed a hard crime, they should be pardoned and let out.

  Ron Paul

  Drug, Violence, Crime

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• Awakening is about liberating yourself from the prison that is the world of the mind and daring to be here as all that you are.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Mind, World, Awakening

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• Christians are meant to have the same vocation as their King, that of cross-bearers. It is this conscience of a high calling and of partnership with Jesus which brings gladness in tribulations, which makes Christians enter prisons for their faith with the joy of a bridegroom entering the bridal room.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Christian, Jesus, Kings

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• Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.

  Paula Cole

  Music, Thank God, Emotion

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• Every single ancient wisdom and religion will tell you the same thing - don't live entirely for yourself, live for other people. Don't get stuck inside your own ego, because it will become a prison in no time flat.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Sacrifice, People, Ego

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• I get so ticked off at you intellectually lazy people who think that the government is God, that every dollar they get or spend is somehow sacred. There is more fraud and waste and misuse. If the federal government were held accountable to the law as corporations are held accountable, half the federal government would be in prison.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Government, Law

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• A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a taste of freedom.

  Nelson Mandela

  Simple, Garden, Custodians

  Nelson Mandela (2013). “Long Walk To Freedom”, p.312, Hachette UK

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• It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen. The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Men, Prison Guards

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• It's difficult to seek other people's love. It's deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.

  Byron Katie

  People, Genuine, Difficult

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.18, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I feel like I’m living in a prison. There are so many things I may not experience. I cannot go swimming, can’t visit relatives, can’t get a job, can’t have a boyfriend. I see so much of life I cannot have. I am living in a veritable prison.

  Candy Darling

  Jobs, Swimming, May

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• The question is not whether there is intelligent life out there, the question is, whether there is intelligent life down here. As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.

  Jacque Fresco

  War, Intelligent, Civilization

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• One in three young African American men is currently under the control of the criminal justice system in prison, in jail, on probation, or on parole - yet mass incarceration tends to be categorized as a criminal justice issue as opposed to a racial justice or civil rights issue (or crisis).

  Michelle Alexander

  Men, Rights, Jail

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Schools resemble the culture of prisons.

  Henry Giroux

  School, Culture

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.

  Hill Harper

  Brother, Community, Poison

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• Students being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in prison-type schools provide a grim reminder of the degree to which the ethos of containment and punishment now creeps into spheres of everyday life that were largely immune in the past from this type of state violence. This is not merely barbarism parading as reform - it is also a blatant indicator of the degree to which sadism and the infatuation with violence have become normalized in a society that seems to take delight in dehumanizing itself.

  Henry Giroux

  School, Past, Ethos

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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