Top Prison Quotes
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
Mary Harris Jones
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
Nellie Bly
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
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Henry David Thoreau
Craig L. Thomas 
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Gene Tierney All Prison Quotes
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
Valentino Rossi 
43% of people like this quote
I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support.
Janis Karpinski
42% of people like this quote
I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.
Angela Davis
42% of people like this quote
When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.
Ho Chi Minh
41% of people like this quote
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
Beck
41% of people like this quote
I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.
Daniel Berrigan
41% of people like this quote
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
Craig L. Thomas
38% of people like this quote
Popular Prison Authors
Ralph Waldo EmersonHenry David ThoreauOscar WildeVictor HugoWinston ChurchillH. L. MenckenBertrand RussellDwight D. EisenhowerGeorge W. BushSimone WeilHarry S. TrumanGene TierneyMike TysonW. C. FieldsGloria Steinem
Sammy Davis, Jr.Robert Anton WilsonNaguib MahfouzRichard PryorPeter UstinovGermaine GreerJanice DickinsonWentworth MillerThomas HobbesMalcolm ForbesJuliette BinocheJack KevorkianWilliam GlasserJim MorrisonNathaniel Hawthorne
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