The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“I often find myself in a room full of strangers, and very often it’s a tough crowd. But I’m a master networker,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“My head is a prison I’ve been locked in from the start, So if I'm treated like a criminal I might as… — Dan Garfat-Pratt Copy Share Image
Perhaps some day, modern people will learn that mystery is not the prison of the mind of people, it is their home. — Walter Farrell Copy Share Image
In brief, we do more research on men in prison, men in the military, and men in general than we do on… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Are you searching for the river of your soul? Then come out of your prison. Leave the stream and join the river… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“To live with unforgiveness is to become a captive cultured citizen whose taxation is that of demonically ticketed torment.” — Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a revolution turns into an actual government, or at the very least an actual way of life that contrasts with days… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
“He was about to cross a point of no return. The place separating him from the imaginary line in the sand. The… — Jaime Allison Parker Copy Share Image
I think most people have a general sense that when you're released from prison, life is hard, but, you know, if you… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Defenders of the status quo will often try to mislead the public by saying, "Just look at our state prisons: nearly half… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Non-custodial sentences are certainly something to look at, more support in the community rather than within prisons is something we have to… — David Gauke Copy Share Image
I guess Satan was the first superhero [...] In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
There are countries in which public establishments are considered by the government as its own personal affair, so that it admits persons… — Gustave de Beaumont Copy Share Image
“Ako nisam kriv, onda su pogriješili, zatvorili su nedužna čovjeka. Ako me puste, priznaće svoju grešku, a to nije ni lako ni… — Meša Selimović Copy Share Image
A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
I do get stopped in the street, and people are always, without exception, really polite. I think it's because they think I… — Robert Rinder Copy Share Image
A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out. — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
On Wednesday, a 55 year-old inmate escaped from Rikers Island after he convinced guards that he was a lawyer. Guards probably should've… — Seth Meyers Copy Share Image
“The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
There's rumors in the Twittersphere. If I find out that any of my officer is giving out drug and alcohol I send… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave… — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
Offenders who commit crime in prison have a disruptive and often devastating impact on the prospects of those who are trying to… — David Gauke Copy Share Image
The frogs hopping indoors agree that we are on a prison planet. They themselves are frog criminals that were convicted of doing… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Whites have more than eleven times the net worth or wealth of African Americans. They make greater salaries. Our unemployment rate is… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things… — John Milton Copy Share Image
We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
I go around the world dealing with running and hiding... I can't take a walk in the park . I can't go… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
If everyone charged with crimes suddenly exercised his constitutional rights, there would not be enough judges, lawyers, or prison cells to deal… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“All my contemporaries— hundred-and-fivers or convicts— will tell you how we lived in barely sentient fear, raising children for the executioner, prison,… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I hate taking refugees. I guarantee you they are bad. That is why they are in prison right now. They are not… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
There is no public space for women; the whole world is a prison where you have to be constantly aware at all… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison… — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image