Prison Quotes
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![Alexandre Dumas](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1279049943i/4785._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
![Franz Kafka](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1615573688i/5223._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.”
― Blue Octavo Notebooks
― Blue Octavo Notebooks
![Nelson Mandela](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1308928296i/367338._UX200_CR0,11,200,200_.jpg)
“It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.”
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![Henry David Thoreau](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1392432620i/10264._UX200_CR0,23,200,200_.jpg)
“The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw a long breath without causing your rotten institutions to come toppling down by the vacuum he makes. Your church is a baby-house made of blocks, and so of the state.
...The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard.”
― I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
...The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard.”
― I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
![Brandon Sanderson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1721927489i/38550._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Kaladin frowned. “Wait. Are you wearing cologne? In prison?”
“Well, there was no need to be barbaric, just because I was incarcerated.”
“Storms, you’re spoiled,” Kaladin said, smiling.
“I’m refined, you insolent farmer,” Adolin said. Then he grinned. “Besides, I’ll have you know that I had to use cold water for my baths while here.”
“Poor boy.”
― Words of Radiance
“Well, there was no need to be barbaric, just because I was incarcerated.”
“Storms, you’re spoiled,” Kaladin said, smiling.
“I’m refined, you insolent farmer,” Adolin said. Then he grinned. “Besides, I’ll have you know that I had to use cold water for my baths while here.”
“Poor boy.”
― Words of Radiance
![Howard Zinn](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1245211489i/1899._UX200_CR0,19,200,200_.jpg)
“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished.
It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.”
― You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.”
― You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
![Michelle Alexander](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1680635545i/3051490._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“The genius of the current caste system, and what most distinguishes it from its predecessors, is that it appears voluntary. People choose to commit crimes, and that's why they are locked up or locked out, we are told. This feature makes the politics of responsibility particularly tempting, as it appears the system can be avoided with good behavior. But herein lies the trap. All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world.”
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
![Emily Brontë](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1529578586i/4191._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“The thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all. I’m tired of being enclosed here. I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
![Thomas Harris](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1602363825i/12455._UY200_CR17,0,200,200_.jpg)
“God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.”
― The Silence of the Lambs
― The Silence of the Lambs
![Scott Westerfeld](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1616769389i/13957._UX200_CR0,44,200,200_.jpg)
“I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.”
― The Last Days
― The Last Days
![Oscar Wilde](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1673611182i/3565._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg)
“The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever. Even if people employ actual violence, they are not to be violent in turn. That would be to fall to the same low level. After all, even in prison, a man can be quite free. His soul can be free. His personality can be untroubled. He can be at peace. And, above all things, they are not to interfere with other people or judge them in any way. Personality is a very mysterious thing. A man cannot always be estimated by what he does. He may keep the law, and yet be worthless. He may break the law, and yet be fine. He may be bad, without ever doing anything bad. He may commit a sin against society, and yet realize through that sin his true perfection.”
― The Soul of Man Under Socialism
― The Soul of Man Under Socialism
![Erik Pevernagie](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629325665i/14170911._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“When people become prisoners of daily habits and happen to be hostages of choices, which they made in the past, but which they finally do not actually want, they experience the need to abandon their corporeal prison at a certain time in life. ( "Corporeal prison" )”
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![Richard Lovelace](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1372976064i/237489._UX200_CR0,19,200,200_.jpg)
“Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage;
If I have freedom in my love
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone, that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty.”
― To Althea, from Prison
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage;
If I have freedom in my love
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone, that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty.”
― To Althea, from Prison
![G.I. Gurdjieff](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1436984929i/214546._UY200_CR11,0,200,200_.jpg)
“You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape.”
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![John Lubbock](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1398869672i/415473._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.”
― Peace and Happiness
― Peace and Happiness
![Daniil Kharms](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651609393i/4152890._UX200_CR0,60,200,200_.jpg)
“I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison.”
― Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings
― Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings
![Piper Kerman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1486678778i/2867696._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.”
― Orange Is the New Black
― Orange Is the New Black
![Laini Taylor](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1224474224i/324620._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“It was cruel. Like opening a birdcage to let the bird fly out, whilst all the while it's tethered by the leg, and freedom is only an illusion.”
― Strange the Dreamer
― Strange the Dreamer
![Carlos Ruiz Zafón](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1601032197i/815._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people... I got the feeling that Julián was living in the past, locked in his memories. Julián lived within himself, for his books and inside them - a comfortable prison of his own design."
"You say this as if you envied him."
"There are worse prisons than words.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
"You say this as if you envied him."
"There are worse prisons than words.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
“Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get away from the hurt of them. She could leave Eric, walk out of her apartment, walk forever if she liked, but she couldn't escape what really hurt. Tonight even the sky felt like a prison.”
― Sisterhood Everlasting
― Sisterhood Everlasting
“I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me.”
― Things We Couldn't Say
― Things We Couldn't Say
![Neil Gaiman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1234150163i/1221698._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The best thing—in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low as he could plunge and he'd hit bottom. He didn't worry that the man was going to get him, because the man had got him. He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
![Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1574793149i/19771050._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything. For a person you've taken everything from is no longer in your power. He's free all over again.”
― The First Circle
― The First Circle
“After a week he was moved to a different wing and into a shared six-by-eight with a grizzled old con called Alf. He had faded tattoos that stained most of the visible skin on his hands, arms and neck a dull blue, sharp eyes and a thick beard that made his mouth look like an axe wound on a bear.”
― The Zombie Room
― The Zombie Room
![Norman Mailer](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1431164017i/7927._UX200_CR0,13,200,200_.jpg)
“We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.”
― In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison
― In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison
![Alex E. Jones](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1658660341i/3084882._UX200_CR0,11,200,200_.jpg)
“The drug war is a total scam, prescription drugs kill 300K a year, while marijuana kills no one, but they spend billions/year 'fighting' it, because pot heads make for good little slaves to put into private prisons, owned by the banks who launder the drug money, and it's ALL DOCUMENTED.”
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![J.K. Rowling](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1596216614i/1077326._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg)
“They don’t need walls and water to keep the prisoners in, not when they’re trapped inside their own heads, incapable of a single cheerful thought. Most go mad within weeks.”
― Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
― Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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