Prison Quotes

He who opens a school, closes a prison. (Victor Hugo)
A mind enclosed in language is in prison. View quote
Simone Weil
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable. View quote
Karl Kraus
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. View quote
Israel Zangwill
The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness. View quote
André Malraux
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space. View quote
Gloria Steinem
The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think. View quote
David Icke
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. View quote
Aung San Suu Kyi
I've never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox's biggest moneymakers, and some of that money goes to pay for shows like Prison Break. Simon Cowell's been signing my paychecks and for that I say thanks. (Wentworth Miller)
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well. View quote
Peter Ustinov
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff. View quote
Mike Tyson
In my country we go to prison first and then become President. View quote
Nelson Mandela
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
When Reality is a prison, Your mind can set you free. View quote
Zack Snyder
He had wanted so hard to Escape, to find the stars. And all he had found was a new prison. View quote
Catherine Fisher
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. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
The White House is the finest prison in the world. View quote
Harry S. Truman
The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a prison and in servitude, and having by accident got its liberty, not being accustomed to search for its food, and not knowing where to conceal itself, easily becomes the prey of the first who seeks to incarcerate it again. (Niccolò Machiavelli)
Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live. View quote
Jack Kerouac
The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way. View quote
George W. Bush
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. View quote
H. L. Mencken