In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
“You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you… — G.I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
Reflecting on his years in prison, Nelson Mandela wrote that there were dark moments that tested his faith in humanity, but he… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Good-quality protein is very hard to come by in prison. Tuna is good, but tuna doesn't have texture. Mackerel is meaty. — Charlie Shrem Copy Share Image
You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
My husband regarded my prison past as a dirty secret and never asked me one single question about it. But what I… — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
I began to fear that I was forever going to be living in a hot desert cage, living as and being treated… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
You can see how prison could affect some of the other guys that are there for longer than a year. Because eventually,… — Michael Sorrentino Copy Share Image
...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He's like a little boy again now for the first time in years because he's like let out of school, no job,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I have spent more than 20 years in prison, then on one night I decided to surrender by signing all the terms… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I'm the first artist of any kind, good or bad, that was ever prosecuted by the Federal Government. Thirdly, they used the… — Harry Reems Copy Share Image
I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and to Harvard… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us .… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
We can see in retrospect that criminalizing the consumption of alcohol proves not to be the solution to the very real problem… — Glenn Loury Copy Share Image
...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For many, whether they go to prison or not is far less about the choices they make and far more about what… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“That missleproof glass might as well have been electrified fence and barbed wire. No one could fashion a prison so perfect, so… — S. J. Kincaid Copy Share Image
Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment, it is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“A podium and a prison is each a place, one high and the other low, but in either place your freedom of… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Mirrors on the ceiling, The pink champagne on ice and she said we are all just prisoners here, of our own device. — Aaron Fresh Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who… — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
I don't care if you want to hunt, I don't care if you think it's your right. I say, sorry, you are… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The irony of prison is that it takes years and years and years to plan an elaborate escape, but all you have… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
I don't think Edward Snowden deserves a death penalty or life in prison. I think that's inappropriate. I think that's why he… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything he desires is outside; and there is another… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Oh, what am I for the Frenchman or the Italian? A guy who was in prison, a revolutionary, somebody they once read… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it it was a very spiritual time for… — Henrique Capriles Radonski Copy Share Image
The day-to-day discomforts of prison life, combined with the big-picture realities of mass incarceration, do not add up to a party. — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
What I'm really trying to say is that I believed an armed insurrection could work. After I was shot and went to… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I was already a wreck when I went in, and prison nearly destroyed what little was left of me. I was worse… — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
I believe it's our responsibility as citizens to get in there and not accept the constant failure of prisons to deal with… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who's miserable in it - men and women alike - and anyone who's suffered… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking, or that look in your eye, just standing on the corner watching… — Dean Martin Copy Share Image
Spending time in jail really helped me stay away from what my brother did because I got a taste of jail time.… — John Starks Copy Share Image
'Fast Food Nation' isn't about my journey into the dark world of fast food and the prison book is not about my… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Even though wrestling is getting more popular - wrestling being more popular than it was five years ago is like being the… — Jim Cornette Copy Share Image
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