Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“...any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“It's not like they can take anything from me,' he says later, back with his homeboys in Juvenile Hall. 'Ain't got nothing… — Edward Humes Copy Share Image
No one doubts that having a criminal record - whether it results in community probation or prison - is a serious handicap. — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
I place these numbed wrists to the pane watching white uniforms whisk over him in the tube-kept prison fear what they will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I thought, 'This is not going to drag me down, this is going to make me a better man.' So I came… — Gino D'Acampo Copy Share Image
People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“Violence is already active here; it is built into the very structure od the existing society. If we seek a world in… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
People bring up Willie Horton or some other political bombshell in the past, but what they're not being intellectually honest about is… — Thom Tillis Copy Share Image
When [Nelson Mandela] was in prison I admired him for his moral strength... Of his period in power I can see few… — Mengistu Haile Mariam Copy Share Image
“A year as an inmate in Kamĩtĩ has taught me what should have been obvious: that the prison system is a repressive… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words,… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
You don't get rich, you don't often have much fun. Sometimes you get beaten up or shot at or tossed into the… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek;… — Isaiah Copy Share Image
Wow. Clearly, I need to find myself an ex-con. Since prison is probably the only place in this city I haven’t looked… — Julie James Copy Share Image
The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope,… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990 and he hasn't reoffended.… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Prison is a still point in a turning world, and it is very easy to remain in the same place in jail… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Formerly incarcerated people deserve a second shot at life - and all obstacles to their being able to find that second chance… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The younger you are, the more likely you are to have grown up in a (mostly) lead-free environment, and that means you're… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, from the prison of past conditioning. Uncertainty is… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“I'm in prison because I'm a free man, because I found it necessary to exercise my freedom, because I accepted this necessity.” — Jorge Semprún Copy Share Image
Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is… — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton… — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
“This happened in 1932, when the state penitentiary was still at Cold Mountain. And the electric chair was there, too, of course.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk… — Anthony Venn-Brown Copy Share Image
“I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
As the nation-state has monopolized habeas corpus … on balance we have far more people in prison, federal and state, than ever. — Anthony Gregory Copy Share Image
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“When a man does not realise his kinship with the world, he lives in a prison-house whose walls are alien to him.” — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's… — Alex Pettyfer Copy Share Image
When I was in prison, a Colombian drug lord, offered me $5 million in cash to manipulate a computer system so that… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
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