I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are… — Jimmy Hoffa Copy Share Image
Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I know that we've had a lot of immigration. How many immigrants are in prison? And what I found was - and… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
In a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. The only… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I think the American people said, look, you know, we can't control what every government does to its people, but we shouldn't… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Prison left me with some strange little tics.' She has taken all the door off their hinges in all the apartments she… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do.… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
“The law was applied in accordance to social structure. A dope using poor man was bound for prison. A wealthy farm boy… — R.E. Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Crime is a social problem, and education is the only real deterrent. Look at all of us in prison; we were all… — Wilbert Rideau Copy Share Image
“Seasons didn't come behind the nicotine-stained walls of Mountain City's prison, so Harm always imagined it spring--the locust trees clustered with shaggy… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
“Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
The [Stanford Prison Experiment] was readily approved by the Human Subjects Research committee because it seemed like college kids playing cops and… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's no straight line between closing the mental institutions and filling the prisons but there is some sort of relationship. And it's… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
The earth is not a lair, neither is it a prison. The earth is a Paradise, the only one we'll ever know.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
That prison," I said with heartfelt sincerity, "Was absolutely the most awful thing that has happened to me in my entire life."… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
“The prisoners stand on the other side, three of whom require their own cages. He hands out the Eucharist through a sort… — Kerry Weber Copy Share Image
People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
On one hand, prostitutes don't struggle because it's simply their life. In Mexico and elsewhere, once they get out of these places… — Michael Glawogger Copy Share Image
Our people outside of prison used my name to mobilize the community locally and internationally. But for me to be treated separately… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Realizing the seriously ruthless, venomous habits and agendas of evil always instills a more fierce passion and longing for a closer God.… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Bengt didn’t budge. “Talk to me, damn it.” “Let go!” “And where are you planning to go, Alex?” “Away!” “You can’t get… — G.B. Gordon Copy Share Image
The idea that the United States can't guard its own border is silly. It's a sign that were not serious about this...people… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
“Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
So,” Royce said, “you want us to escape from this prison, kidnap the king, cross the countryside with him in tow while… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“It was granted me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I put my mum through a lot of stress; police would be coming to the house... It just seemed normal to me,… — J Hus Copy Share Image
My father always said I would do something big one day.'I've got a feeling about you, John Osbourne,' he'd tell me, after… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
“Just as a star suddenly flares to a hundred times its previous brightness -- and then fades away, so, too, a human… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
For thirty years, Isreal has been highjacking ships in international waters, killing people, taking hostages, bringing them to Israel, putting them in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've been involved in activities with other people who were put in jail. We were protesting the closing of the prison farm… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“THE CURSE May they never Return home at night... May you have no part of eventide, May you have no room of… — Visar Zhiti Copy Share Image