Quotes about Imprisonment

When we arrived in Rome, Paul was permitted to stay by himself, with a soldier to guard him.

Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.

And when we did come out [of prison], my children said, "We thought we had a father and one day he'd come back. But to our dismay, our father came back and he left us alone because he has now become the father of the nation.

After two years had passed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus. And wishing to do the Jews a favor, Felix left Paul in prison.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.

I know not whether laws be right, Or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

Now Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,

An obedient man is free when in prison," Quan said. "A disobedient man is imprisoned when free.

Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.