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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 Mandela Prison 186
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and mangled mind leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict. Elizabeth Drew Prison 125
Often a man endures for several years submits and suffers the cruellest punishments and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle almost nothing at all. Fyodor Dostoevsky Prison 104
A fly and a flea in a flueWere imprisoned, so what could they do?Said the Flea, Let us fly!Said the Fly, Let us flee!So they fled through a flaw in the flue. Anonymous Prison 91
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self. Cyril Connolly Prison 90
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. Horace Mann Prison 85
The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. Henry Miller Prison 83
Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage; minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage. Richard Lovelace Prison 78
I want to go to Sing Sing prison. Ill bet theyve got a good chorus. Jarod Kintz Prison 72
He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. Thomas Hobbes Prison 71
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor. George Bernard Shaw Prison 68
They kept me in a cage for too long because now every room I am standing in is just another cell. Raegan Butcher Prison 63
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter. Jean Genet Prison 62
Id watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions into group homes and jails and I knew that locking people up was paranormal against normal not beside it. Locks didnt cure they strangled. Scott Westerfeld Prison 57
I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in gaol is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long. Oscar Wilde Prison 51
I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault my conscience was clear and I was happy. This was when I was in prison. Daniil Kharms Prison 51
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. Eldridge Cleaver Prison 50
A shopping cart flipped upside down forms a cage that I use to protect myself from consumerism. Jarod Kintz Prison 42
If I spent ten years in prison Id probably come to value the small things in life. Things like good food a comfy bed and a toothbrush sharpened into a shank. Jarod Kintz Prison 42
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable. Karl Kraus Prison 42
The securest place is a prison cell but there is no liberty Benjamin Franklin Prison 40
I was kind of excited to go to jail for the first time and I learnt some great dialogue. Quentin Tarantino Prison 40
He offered her power money status... a giant prison all in exchange for only...her soul. Coco J. Ginger Prison 38
Youre still in prison if you do nothing better in freedom. Toba Beta Prison 37
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 Prison 37
bad breath and butt smell that is prison in a nutshell. Raegan Butcher Prison 36
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 Madison Prison 35
Id kill for any one of my friends. Thankfully for the overpopulated prison system I dont have any friends. Jarod Kintz Prison 34
We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it. Norman Mailer Prison 32
IN OUR CELLS They keep us in our cells For a long time... And if we get out We lug them with us on our shoulders Like a porter with a chest of goods. Visar Zhiti Prison 32
Prison is like high school with knives. Raegan Butcher Prison 31
Hes stubborn Tux warned in a singsong tone. Stay out of this Mark spat. And touchy Tux added. Brandon Mull Prison 30
Body is a home a prison and a grave. James Runcie Prison 29
Most doctors are prisoners of their education and shackled by their profession. Richard Diaz Prison 27
Fuck you angel. Fuck you and all Gods little prison bitches. He slips you some cigarettes and a con job smile and you run off to do his dirty work for him. Go and scare some sinners. No ones listening to you here. Richard Kadrey Prison 27
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. Jakes Prison 27
...the court as now constituted would be meaningless without the jail which gives it its power. But if there is anything I have learned by being in jail it is that prisons are wrong simply and unqualifiedly wrong. Barbara Deming Prison 25
I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers the Vikings Mafia etc. As long as I was engrossed in a book I was not in prison. Reading was my escape. Frazier Glenn Miller Prison 23

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