Quotes of: Prison Keyword

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

Philip Zimbardo

We are the prisoners of conformity. To get out of this prison, education is the only door and only opportunity.

Debasish Mridha

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

John A. Powell

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

Nelson Mandela

Professor Snape: Why you insolent, little... Professor Lupin: ...Professor.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

[repeated line] Ron: Hermione, when did you get here?

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

[the train has stopped] Ron: There's something moving out there.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Hermione: [to Buckbeak] Come on Buckbeak! Come and get the nice dead ferret!

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.

John Yoo

A group of ten prisoners from Dachau, I was with them, we hid in the forest to wait for the Americans. The Germans had already left everything behind. We had food but no weapons. For days we could hear bombs exploding around us. We just wanted to sur...

The Nature of Truth

Ben the Prisoner: Quite the jailer's pet, are we? Brian: What do you mean? Ben the Prisoner: You must have slipped him a few shekels, eh? Brian: Slipped him a few shekels-you saw him spit in my face! Ben the Prisoner: Oh, what wouldn't I give to be s...

Life of Brian

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

Forgive and Forget: Healing the Hurts We Don't Deserve

Hermione: You! You foul loathsome evil little cockroach!

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics.

Lewis Tappan

I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.

Foxy Brown

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

Eldridge Cleaver

Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.

Trevor Phillips

Hermione: Is that really what my hair looks like from the back?

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry: But you're innocent! Sirius Black: And you know it. And for now, that'll do.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what other activity could better have softened an...

The House of the Dead

Warden Samuel Norton: [to new inmates, after explaining the prison routine] Any questions? Prisoner: When do we eat? Captain Hadley: [Approaches prisoner] You eat when we say you eat. You piss when we say you piss, and you shit when we say you shit. ...

The Shawshank Redemption