593 Quotes About Prison

I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor shades confined to the Euclidean prison that is sanity

Addiction puts you in a prison where the locks are on the inside. Only you hold the keys to set yourself free.

Not having to force yourself to love or hate, is liberating.

If you never assume the truth, you'll never be shackled by a lie.

I was kind of excited to go to jail for the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

Issues are like tissues. You pull one out and another appears!

Mental ghettos are not mirages; they actually exist in palpable reality: being "open" inside one's mental or intellectual ghetto does not open its door but simply allows one to harbour the illusion that there is no ghetto and no door. The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

Negroes were constantly being arrested in the city, for crimes they committed and for crimes they did not, for rudeness or talking back or looking at a white woman, for being in the wrong neighborhood or being suspected of being in the vicinity of the wrong neighborhood. Upon conviction, many of these men were, in the words of one historian, "literally sold to the highest bidders." Convicts were much in demand as workers, and the state, not the convict, got the wage.