prison quotes

• Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization. (Winston Churchill) [more/democracy/prison]
• In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. (Eldridge Cleaver) [prison]
• My lowest days as a Christian [and There Were Low Ones--Seven Months Worth Of Them In Prison, To Be Exact] have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House. (Charles Caleb Colton) [prison/more]
• We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death. (John Donne) [prison/walls/life/death]
• Whenever any affliction assails me, I have the keys of my prison in mine own hand, and no remedy presents it selfe so soone to my heart, as mine own sword. Often meditation of this hath wonne me to a charitable interpretation of their action, who dy so: and provoked me a little to watch and exagitate their reasons, which pronounce so peremptory judgments upon them. (John Donne) [prison/meditation/action]
• The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [fame/prison/more]
• It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. (Henry Ford) [prison]
• Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline. (Michel Foucault) [prison/society/discipline]
• Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release. (Germaine Greer) [security/prison/threat]
• He who opens a school door, closes a prison. (Victor Hugo) [school/prison]
• There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation. (Eugene Ionesco) [religion/life/prison/philosophy]
• Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest --thought, action --is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go. (Cesare Pavese) [reality/prison/willpower/rest]
• The most anxious man in a prison is the governor. (George Bernard Shaw) [prison]
• Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. (Henry David Thoreau) [government/prison]
• A mind enclosed in language is in prison. (Simone Weil) [mind/language/prison]
• 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. (Oscar Wilde) [prison/sorrow/measure/time]
• “If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison. (Chaka Khan) [rest/life/prison]
• Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard. (Barry Pepper) [prison]
• I'm basically there just to get kicked by guys in gorilla suits. I'm still having dreams that I'm in prison with a bunch of apes. (Mark Wahlberg) [prison]
• But HEAT - playing a psychopath and guys that spend a lot of years in prison - that kind of mentality - but having to do it in a very specific period of time - it was actually good for me because I didn't get sidetracked. (Val Kilmer) [heat/prison/time]
• If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in. (Tim Roth) [time/prison]
• “I've been a prisoner and lived in prison for a while; I've been a missionary in China; I've been a vampire and a priest in Poland in World War II. I guess without bragging or being too prideful about it I'm excited when I look back at these things that I've done. I've had lots of wonderful opportunities.” (Willem Dafoe) [prison/vampire/war/being]
• I existed in a world that never is-the prison of the mind. (Gene Tierney) [prison/mind]
• “I knew he would not have gone to prison if I hadn't come forward.” (Teri Hatcher) [prison]
• “It's liberty for all, democracy's our style, unless you are against us, then it's prison without trial.” ( Rolling Stones) [literary style/prison]
• The one thing I’ve always been is a leader, … Even when I was out in the streets doing all kinds of wrong and ended up going to prison, I was never a follower. The guys I rode with looked up to me. (Bernard Hopkins) [thing/leader/prison]
• In my country we go to prison first and then become President. (Nelson Mandela) [prison/president]
• Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows? (Jack Kevorkian) [prison]
• There's no doubt I expect to die in prison. (Jack Kevorkian) [prison]
• His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do. (Maurice Ashley) [opinion/prison]

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