Prisons Quotes
Posted by nabil medawar in Famous Quotes and Sayings, Miscellaneous Quotes, Words of wisdom, tags: preson, prisoner
- A mind enclosed in language is in prison.~ Simone Weil
- A sick person is a prisoner.~ Yemeni Proverb
- Keep the tongue in your mouth a prisoner.~ Turkish Proverb
- If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
- I have never been contained except I made the prison~ Mary Evans
- It is not at the table but in prison that you learn who your true friends are.~ Serbian Proverb
- I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn’t know where to die.~ Antonio Gramsci
- He who opens a school door, closes a prison.~ Victor Hugo
- Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.~ T. S. Eliot
- One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.~ Oscar Wilde
- Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.~ Peter Ustinov
- Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.~ Germaine Greer
- Shyness is the prison of the heart.~ Spanish Proverb
- Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.~ Japanese Proverb
- The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.~ Denis Healey
- The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.~ George Bernard Shaw
- There are no beautiful prisons or ugly loved ones.~ French Proverb
- The worst prison would be a closed heart.~ Pope Jobn Paul II
- The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.~ Sir Walter Raleigh
- Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.~ Frederick Langbridge
- We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.~ Oscar Wilde
- While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.~ Eugene V. Debs
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