All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction,… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
After twelve years in prison, I think I have listened to the radio maybe 30-40 times in all, and only when I… — Varg Vikernes 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
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
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
I never realized how much I've become dependent on human approval until God took it away. I didn't even realize that I… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, 'Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!' And I'm like, 'Okay I don't know you, I… — Sherri Shepherd Copy Share Image
Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded,… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
“If the incarceration experience doesn't break your spirit, it changes you in a way that you lose many fears. You begin to… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
For many of us, the hospital was as much a refuge as it was a prison. Though we were cut off from… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate… — John Spratt Copy Share Image
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes… — George Bernard Shaw 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 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
He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss — John Locke 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
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
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
..When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I used to interact with the fellow prisoners during recreation activity; I used to conduct an interactive session that we named 'Rajpal… — Rajpal Yadav Copy Share Image
The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I helped write the expunction code in the State of Texas to give people the opportunity to have their names cleared when… — Marc Veasey Copy Share Image
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not… — Thomas Brooks 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
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
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
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
