best quotations about
Prison |
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Quotations
 | The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 41 likes |
 | One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 11 likes |
 | Prisons are built with stones of law; brothels with bricks of religion. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 9 likes |
 | Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 9 likes |
 | 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 Eisenhower, 1890-1969, American general & President 8 likes |
 | It is in prison … that one becomes a real revolutionary. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 7 likes |
| The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 7 likes |
 | He who opens a school door, closes a prison. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 4 likes |
 | Being in a ship is like being in jail, with the chance of being drowned. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 4 likes |
 | Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. — Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945, American President [1936-1945] 4 likes |
 | The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 3 likes |
 | The White House is the finest prison in the world. — Harry Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 3 likes |
| Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 3 likes |
 | Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon. |
 | If you put people in cages, don't be surprised if they become animals. |
| In order to escape from this prison, one must learn not to be on good terms with its indisputable comforts. |
 | Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested. — Franz Kafka, 1883-1924, Bohemian writer (“The Trial”) |
 | If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence. |
Ancient Greek
 | The “I don’t know” will not put me in prison. Το ουκ οίδα εις φυλακήν ου βάλλει. — Aesop, 620-560 BC, Ancient Greek fabulist 7 likes |
Proverbs
 | Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time. (first publ. Dave Grusin and M. Ames) 4 likes |
