Quotes on Prison

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

Author: Jack Abbott

The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who "disappeared". That's what the candle is for.

Author: Peter Benenson

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

Author: Steve Buscemi

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

Author: Eldridge Cleaver

He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison.

Author: Daniel Drew

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

Author: Philip Emeagwali

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

Author: Antonia Fraser

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Author: Victor Hugo

Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?

Author: Jack Kevorkian

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

Author: Richard Lovelace

Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.

Author: Wentworth Miller

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

Author: Ho Minh

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

Author: Huey Newton

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

Author: Gloria Steinem

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

Author: Harry Truman

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Author: Oscar Wilde