Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
“...not with the Depression walking around outside the prison walls like a dangerous criminal, one that couldn't be caged as our charges… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss — John Locke Copy Share Image
I found fame to be somewhat of a prison. The more famous you were, the smaller the cell that you had to… — Dave Madden Copy Share Image
We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa… — Rose Bird Copy Share Image
“Send me away to a prison where they keep magicians. So I can perform my magic for those who are in the… — Ray Buckley Copy Share Image
Time is the most valuable thing in life because it never comes back. And whether you spend it in the arms of… — Stefan Karl Stefansson Copy Share Image
The only thing worse than working acting in an airplane is working in a prison - they're cold, and the clanging and… — Tobin Bell Copy Share Image
The fact that's why the prisons and stock in private prisons rose the very day after the election results [for Donald Trump]… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow… — Peter Benenson Copy Share Image
On what motivated Colorado voters: "Let's face it, the War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well intentioned ... but… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Whether I'm feeding the homeless, stopping by a high school to chat with teens, visiting a prison or local jail, I think… — Raheem Devaughn Copy Share Image
“you see it.” Gurdjieff, a great spiritual teacher who taught in Europe and America in the early decades of the twentieth century,… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
In prison, you have to forget about the world on the outside. You have no Internet, no communications, and you're cut off… — Charlie Shrem Copy Share Image
Being a figurehead for those with family members in prison is somewhat new for me. Something I've discovered since my father's incarceration… — Kambri Crews Copy Share Image
Id go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didnt have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like… — Amanda Beard Copy Share Image
Rather than serving in the U.S. Senate for almost 20 years or having so many other wonderful life experiences, I could have… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
You will never be completely free from risk, if you're free. The only time you can be free from risk is when… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela announced Tuesday he will begin writing his autobiography. He spent 25 years in prison before being… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The lack of space and a growing prison population has strained resources and put pressure on all levels of the penal system. — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
For our past can be a prison we are locked in permanently, or it can be the key to our freedom if… — Kevin Powell Copy Share Image
Three men at McAlester State Penitentiary had larger penises than Lamar Pye, but all were black and therefore, by Lamar's own figuring,… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or… — Michael Biehn Copy Share Image
Humility does not live in the prison of illusion that says that this world is a dark and terrible place. Those perceptions… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to… — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
In brief, when a man fails as a wallet, we put him in prison; when a woman fails as a mother, we… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
I went to live with my grandparents when my parents threw me out. Then I went to prison at the age of… — Bez Copy Share Image
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
How come we never use prison, the failure of prison, as a reason not to give more prison? There's never a moment… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
I thought a time would come when people would rout me out of Ars with sticks, when the Bishop would suspend me,… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
“You’re scaring the dog,” Trish pointed out. She rarely called me by name. They do that in prisoner of war camps, I’ve… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no… — Daniil Kharms Copy Share Image
I was brought up in a council flat in Islington with only an outside lavatory. And there were plenty of kids I… — Martin Kemp Copy Share Image
There are two phone calls parents don't ever want to get from their children. No. 1 is, 'I'm in prison. Come fetch… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
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