Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Listen, the conditions in prison as a whole - you're not sleeping in a comfortable bed, you're not eating good food, and… — Michael Sorrentino Copy Share Image
“Is the prison that Mr. Scoundrel lives in at the end of his career a more uncomfortable place than the workhouse that… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“You are serving seven years and four months at a maximum-security prison in Wichita. What are you in for and what is… — Anna Faris Copy Share Image
Writers around the world protested when two Communist writers, Siniavski and Daniel, were sentenced to prison by their own comrades. But not… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
For the offenders completing these short sentences whose lives are destabilised, and for society which incurs a heavy financial and social cost,… — David Gauke Copy Share Image
The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“And so, there in the penitentiary, Juan's education began. He didn't want to be a puto weakling, so he worked hard at… — Victor Villaseñor Copy Share Image
Prison was a blessing. Going to prison was the greatest thing that happened to me. It showed me that I wasn't infallible.… — Rick James Copy Share Image
This stereotype that Black and brown boys and girls are dangerous or threatening has normalized systems of trauma: the cradle to prison… — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
“Part of this is related to the vast apparatus created to administer the criminal-justice system; part is related to the new laws… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
In the case of a man and a woman [accused of commiting a crime together], both will often agree to the man… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
We really just live our life. We rap about our life, where we from, our city, what we've been through, from the… — Westside Gunn Copy Share Image
“The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Some prisons don't have wall. It's so hard when u are stuck into an abyss of ur love for someone long time… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Maybe I could survive in one of those resort prisons where they house white-collar criminals. I've always wanted to get better at… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Mexico's No. 1 drug lord has escaped from prison and may be headed to the U.S. So Donald Trump was wrong. They… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Biographer diagnoses reaction to restriction as a tell of true character. Some use even prison as a time of reflection and planning.… — William Raymond Manchester Copy Share Image
“I’ve only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“HAVING NEVER taken a decent holiday before, I decided on a trip to Thailand, booked a flight and flew out the following… — Simon Palmer Copy Share Image
“In 2008, one in a hundred American adults was behind bars. Just what manner of people does our prison policy reveal us… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
One of my best moments was getting a constituent out of jail in Morocco, by which of course I mean I got… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
This is illegal. If you don't let me out, you'll be arrested. I swear you will. You'll go to prison and be… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Gradualism towards prisms of their holy isms and schisms. Lackin' vision these minds makin' life givin' planet livin' a prison. — Deri Isaac Copy Share Image
In South Korea, a scientist considered to be one of the pioneers in the field of cloning has been sentenced to two… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
“Worrying about what other people think is a jail of our own creation, and the irony of it is those people are… — Srinivas Rao Copy Share Image
Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me. — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early '70s, something like four out of five people employed… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the… — Peter Benenson Copy Share Image
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said. Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing." "Self-inflicted. You pathetic American." "Different kind of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day. — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Remember the story of the Spanish prisoner. For many years he was confined in a dungeon... One day it occurred to him… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image