Prison Quotes

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?

I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.

America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.

Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who 'disappeared'. That's what the candle is for.

I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it.

With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.