Top Prison Quotes
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
Mary Harris Jones
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
Nellie Bly
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston Churchill
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Henry David Thoreau
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I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
Mary Harris Jones 
98% of people like this quote
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
Nellie Bly
97% of people like this quote
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston Churchill
78% of people like this quote
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Henry David Thoreau
69% of people like this quote
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
Philip Emeagwali
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I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
W. C. Fields
64% of people like this quote
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Sammy Davis, Jr.Robert Anton WilsonNaguib MahfouzRichard PryorGermaine GreerPeter UstinovJanice DickinsonWentworth MillerJuliette BinocheMalcolm ForbesWilliam GlasserThomas HobbesJack KevorkianNathaniel HawthorneJim Morrison
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