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11 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Topic·Prison✕clear

Autobiography and memoir

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo-obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

1974

★ 1.1

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

I have been in three different prisons, Montgomery. Three different countries. And you know what I learned? I learned prison is a bad place to be.

25th Hour · 2002

★ 1.9

Film · Mystery (film) · Drama (film) · Mystery · Drama

There's white time in jail and there's colored time in jail. The worst kind of time you can do is colored time.

Det. Virgil Tibbs

In the Heat of the Night · 1967

★ 2.0

Film · Western (film) · Western

Well, I guess you can't break out of prison and into society in the same week.

Stagecoach · 1939

★ 2.1

Film · Psychological horror (film) · Thriller (film) · Psychological horror · Thriller

Memory, Agent Starling, is what I have instead of a view.

Dr. Hannibal Lecter

The Silence of the Lambs · 1991

★ 2.1

Film · Prison drama (film) · Drama (film) · Prison drama · Drama

I'm tellin' you, these walls are funny. First you hate ’em. Then you get used to ’em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That’s institutionalized.

Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

The Shawshank Redemption · 1994

★ 2.2

I do not believe there is any sort of distinction between the real moral conditions of the people in and out of jail. One is just as good as the other.... I do not believe that people are in jail because they deserve to be. They are in jail simply because they cannot avoid it on account of circumstances which are entirely beyond their control and for which they are in no way responsible.

Clarence Darrow

1902

★ 3.5

Film · Prison drama (film) · Drama (film) · Prison drama · Drama

I believe in two things: discipline and the Bible. Here you'll receive both. Put your trust in the Lord; your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank.

Warden Samuel Norton

The Shawshank Redemption · 1994

★ 3.5

Film · Psychological drama (film) · Drama (film) · Psychological drama · Drama

Sometimes people need a little help. Sometimes people need to be forgiven. And sometimes they need to go to jail.

Officer Jim Kurring

Magnolia · 1999

★ 3.6

Film · Prison drama (film) · Drama (film) · Prison drama · Drama

You know the funny thing is, on the outside I was an honest man. Straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook.

The Shawshank Redemption · 1994

★ 3.7

Film · Prison drama (film) · Drama (film) · Prison drama · Drama

I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged.

Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

The Shawshank Redemption · 1994

★ 4.0