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Keeping my family out of prison best I can. That is success to me. I created that without selling records.
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?
By the way, the food in prison was disgusting. Like, baked beans every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
All during that prison time I really lived by prayer. Be in prayer always, we're told, and back then I was.
Sometimes the longer you are inside a prison, the harder it is to fathom what is possible beyond its walls.
[On travel:] Who would be so besotted as to die without having made at least the round of this, his prison?
Prison is not meant to be comfortable. It's not meant to be somewhere anyone would ever want to go back to.
I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.
He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.
What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison.
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.
I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.
The lowest point for me was ending up in prison after a violent event. I realised I was way out of my depth.
My mind has never been in prison; I think all the time about what I should do on the day that I am released.
What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.
People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental.
I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.
The prison system in Norway is fairly civilized, by world standards, and so are the prisoners and the guards.
I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.
I'm feeling pretty good. A lot of people don't know this, but I am not currently in prison, which feels great.
Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.
Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?
Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards
My biggest fear growing up was that I would end up in prison. That was the fate of growing numbers of my peers.
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
I'll hit anyone who's seriously threatening my life... that's what happened, and that's what sent me to prison.
The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.
Because a woman goes to prison doesn't mean she's a bad mom - doesn't mean that she shouldn't have her children.
I found fame to be somewhat of a prison. The more famous you were, the smaller the cell that you had to live in.
I've definitely become more aware of the penal system and more aware of what life could be like inside a prison.
Prison hosts a lot of normal people, a lot of family men who were caught in a tight situation or in a dark place.
When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.
He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
If you desecrate a white grave, you wind up sitting in prison. But desecrate an Indian grave, and you get a Ph.D.
Backstage at the Apollo isn't a fun place to be. It's a bit like a prison: small rooms filled with warm Diet Coke.
I come from Eastside Buffalo and prison cells. That's the beauty about hip-hop. It just brings everybody together.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
This thing of darkness I acknowlege mine. There is nothing more confining than the prison we don't know we are in.
Over the course of my career, which is about 40 years, I've visited plenty of prisons and I know what they're like.
Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up.