Walter Raleigh Quotes

There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.

Going to prison, for me, was like seeing my death before it happened.

Chained in a cell, got my own private hell. Preacher crucifies me, warden wants to fry me.

To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.

I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse.

The warden strapped these men into the electric chair / the executioner threw the switch / and set them free into the wind / they are free of the dreams now / free of the greasy prison denim / their voices blow back in a thousand lingoes singing one song / to burst the eardrums of Massachusetts.

I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.

Death Row is the same every day - breakfast at 3 A.M., lunch at 10 A.M., dinner at 3 P.M.

Death row was the only place where I never witnessed racism. We all went to bed with a death sentence on our heads and woke up that way. We had to become each other's support system.

I was always shocked in prison because it's a scary place. It's not natural to lock that many people up like that, in such a tiny place. There's something disturbing about it.

If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

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

It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.

Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates.

I have the death sentence in seven genres.

The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.