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Prison Quotes

Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often summary execution. That prevented a lot of people who knew that the war was not going to turn out well for Germany from giving up.

Police War People Prison Giving Out

I went to visit Alcatraz years ago when I was on tour with the Pistols, and I really liked the atmosphere of the place. I genuinely, really, thoroughly enjoyed the whole morning there. I just liked the quietness and stillness of what is basically a cruel prison complex. I still found some kind of joy in that. That's how I am.

Morning I Am Joy Prison Stillness

If you go to prison, your child support adds up.

Support Child Prison You Go Up

I didn't have any look or any style in prison. Your footwear couldn't cost more than $50. You can't wear blue, orange, gray, any patterns, or you couldn't wear your hair down. There were just so many rules that coincided with your attire.

Style Blue Hair Prison You Look

I think coming out, for me, is really about tearing down the prison wall.

Me Prison Think Down Wall Out

I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of controlled substance.

People Wind Small Prison Think Up

On the surface, you think you wouldn't have to think at all about being asked to play Bilbo in 'The Hobbit.' It's not prison; it's a good gig. But you know it's going to take a long time, and it does. There are times when you thought: 'Gee, I've not seen my house for months.'

Good Time Prison Think Thought You

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

Education Prison End Most Felt Put

I grew up in a bookless house with a father and brother who have spent most of their lives in prison, psychiatric hospitals, or living rough, and a mother who has spent her life slaving and scrimping to pay the bills, living a nervous and troubled life.

Life Father Mother Brother Prison

We can agree that keeping serious criminals in prison is an effective means of preserving public safety, but we must also recognize that the axiom of 'putting people in jail and throwing away the key' does not apply to all offenders universally and can actually be counterproductive.

People Safety Prison Key Serious

I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally.

Money Woman Prison Name Weird Now

People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.

People Prison Seeing Whatever Idea

From kindergarten, I knew that politics is something that you talk about only at home, because if you weren't quiet, your parents might be taken to prison. All Estonian families have these kind of stories.

Kersti Kaljulaid

Home Politics Parents Prison You

I had to grow up in prison for something I did not do.

Prison Grow Grow Up Up Something

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

Prison Out Stay Who Knows Maybe

Attica. The name itself has long signified resistance to prison abuse and state violence.

James Forman, Jr.

Prison Name Violence Long Resistance

I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.

Prison Direction Years System Five

Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.

Walls Me Prison Stand Honor Stone

I usually tell people I watch like '24' and 'Prison Break.'

People Prison Tell Break Watch Like

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

Mind Prison Language Enclosed

At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.

Grateful Bullying Cold Prison Place

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Henry David Thoreau

Man Government Prison Place True

I always said that if I wasn't studying psychopaths in prison, I'd do it at the stock exchange.

Prison Said Studying Always Exchange

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

Men Walls Memory Prison Dignity

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