Prison quotes

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◆ It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.

- Nelson Mandela100

◆ The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.

- John Lubbock99

◆ A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

- Simone Weil99

◆ You're still in prison if you do nothing better in freedom.

- Toba Beta99

◆ I want to go to Sing Sing prison. I'll bet they've got a good chorus.?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ I'd kill for any one of my friends. Thankfully for the overpopulated prison system, I don't have any friends. ?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain.

- T.D. Jakes99

◆ Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get away from the hurt of them. She could leave Eric, walk out of her apartment, walk forever if she liked, but she couldn't escape what really hurt. Tonight even the sky felt like a prison.

- Ann Brashares99

◆ I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me.

- Diet Eman99

◆ That's for the best. Otherwise they might realize they're in prison. It can't be helped. You women are used to harems and prisons. A person can spend his whole life between four walls. If he doesn't think or feel that he's a prisoner, then he's not a prisoner. But then there are people for whom the whole planet is a prison, who see the infinite expanse of the universe, the millions of stars and galaxies that remain forever inaccessible to them. And that awareness makes them the greatest prisoners of time and space.

- Vladimir Bartol99

◆ The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

- Benjamin Franklin99

◆ Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.

- Andy Rooney99

◆ While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.

- Tiffany Madison99

◆ It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

- Thomas Jefferson99

◆ Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

- James Runcie99