Quotes with prison

  • Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.
  • When you're going off to prison for the rest of your life, a lot of people do feel the need to explain themselves to all the people they have known.
  • Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.
  • We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
  • Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
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  • Bobby Seale Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Ronnie Corbett A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals.
    Ronnie Corbett
    Scottish comedian (1930 - 2016)
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  • Simone Weil A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Gloria Steinem A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner A small-time hoodlum who had spent most of the 1960s at San Quentin State Prison in California, the 30-year-old Bryant claimed that he hijacked Flight 97 under orders from his higher-ups in the Black Panther Party; he said his mission was to arrange for the purchase of bazookas to aid the organization's struggle against oppression.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bruce Jackson America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • George W. Bush America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
    State of the Union, 20-01-2004
    George W. Bush
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Evelyn Waugh Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Elie Wiesel As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame.
    Nobel acceptance speech (1986)
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Angela Davis Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our­ selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of the prison as disconnected from our own lives. This is even true for some of us, women as well as men, who have already experienced imprisonment.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Barry Pepper Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
    Barry Pepper
    Canadian-American actor (1950 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein Facebook seems to think that it would be liberating if everyone's News Feed could be personalized so that people see only and exactly what they want. Don't believe it. That's a prison.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Abraham Cowley For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Galileo wasn't put in prison because he was wrong about anything he discovered looking through his telescope; rather, he was incarcerated simply because he saw what others didn't wish to see.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Thomas Hobbes He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Victor Hugo He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • William Wordsworth Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • George L. Jackson I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me.
    The Prison Letters of George Jackson (1970)
    George L. Jackson
    African-American author and activist
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  • John McCain I spent several years in a north Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States?
    John McCain
    American politician (1936 - 2018)
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