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By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.

Quote by Cynthia Payne about vice, sun, nothing

If prayers would spread so fast as anecdotes, the prisons would become monasteries and prisons monks.

Quote by Gavriil Stiharul about humor, fasting

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Quote by Winston Churchill about war, man

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about americans

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about school, reason

So we can all hold up like good soldiers and harden ourselves in prison. But if you do that for too long, you lose yourself.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about good, good luck

That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about day, life

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott

When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about attack, circumstances

And he's writing a book right now that's going to be a little bit stronger than my book. But he really went through hell to get me out of prison.

Quote by Jim Bakker about hell, writing, rightness

At that point, I just thought I would die in prison. It was - I was devastated mentally.

Quote by Jim Bakker about thinking

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

Quote by George W. Bush about chance, life

The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.

Quote by George W. Bush

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

Quote by Eugen Ionescu about ideology, philosophy, religion, life

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

Quote by Mick Jagger about regret, past

If you have just punched out a handcuffed prisoner for spitting at you, you are about to become a star on Eyewitness News.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about police, celebrity

He became a prisoner of the Germans, he escaped, he was condemned to death. He was saved by a priest at the last moment.

Quote by Shimon Peres about war, death, moment

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

Quote by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela about truth, country

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

Quote by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela about liberty, man

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

Quote by Benjamin Jonson about fear, hell