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Prison11 quotes
I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. — Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding · 1994You 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. — Andy Dufresne · 1994Sometimes people need a little help. Sometimes people need to be forgiven. And sometimes they need to go to jail. — Officer Jim Kurring · 1999I 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 · 1994I 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 · 1902I'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 · 1994All 11 quotes →Black and white1 quote
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 · 1967Confinement1 quote
I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. — Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding · 1994Discipline1 quote
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 · 1994Forgiveness1 quote
Sometimes people need a little help. Sometimes people need to be forgiven. And sometimes they need to go to jail. — Officer Jim Kurring · 1999Freedom1 quote
I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. — Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding · 1994Memory1 quote
Memory, Agent Starling, is what I have instead of a view. — Dr. Hannibal Lecter · 1991Moral theory1 quote
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 · 1902Trust in God1 quote
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 · 1994