Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.
In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.
Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.
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.
Prison is, simply put, the bottom rung of the welfare ladder.
When you're in prison, you can't do anything about what's happening outside.
In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available. . . in America right now.
It hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world’s largest open-air prison.
Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.
Most people named Willie are either in prison or on the armwrestling circuit.
Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
I think we raised awareness of spice and what it's doing to people in prison. The media is also doing a good job of highlighting how dangerous it is as well, so maybe we can add to that.
Prison Break really changed me to somebody that can put butts in seats.
I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series.
I am aware of what you're talking about with FEMA camps. What is particularly disturbing about that is they are going to be on former military bases. A ton of people have expressed their concerns that what they're building are prison camps.
In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in the crowd identified me. . . and asked me in a whisper. . . "Can you describe this?" And I said: "I can. "