For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Akbar Ganji was in prison for six years, and that was it...for six years, and it was finished. Of course the Iranian… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
I think we have to have capital punishment, I think there has to be something to contain certain people. Those deterrents I… — Merle Haggard Copy Share Image
I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
“Once the criminal has served his time, he returns to his old neighborhood. There’s a good chance he’s been psychologically damaged by… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I knew Deng Xiaoping when he came out of prison. He had, after all, been imprisoned for nearly ten years by Mao.… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The mythology around colorblindness leads people to imagine that if poor kids of color are failing or getting locked up in large… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
In many large urban areas, the majority of working age African American men now have criminal records and are thus subject to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We've so, so fallen for the premise that only government can do certain things. But then when we get around to privatizing,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Illustrious confessors of Jesus Christ, a Christian finds in prison the same joys as the prophets tasted in the desert. Call it… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the… — Rudolf Hoss Copy Share Image
Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Well, a lot of things surprised me. There were things that I had never thought about, in my life. I never thought… — Taylor Schilling Copy Share Image
There is simply too much unnecessary suffering in our world. And we should see that as a national security risk, by the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I haven't been manipulated. I did a documentary in prison years ago because I was so f - ed off with those… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally… — George Ripley Copy Share Image
[President Clinton] boasts about 186,000 people denied firearms under the Brady Law rules. The Brady Law has been in force for three… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
“We could choose to be a nation that extends care, compassion, and concern to those who are locked up and locked out… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
And I just hope that I'm forgiven for carin bout how they livin and loanin a little money and keepin em outta… — Drake Copy Share Image
I'd say the modern world has moved yet further away from me, and I don't think whether or not I am incarcerated… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver. As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
You expect me to believe that you're being held against your will?" I raised a skeptical eyebrow. "You're roaming around the castle… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
Now, now, hear me out," Hamish went on. "We don't have to kidnap Garrett. Not if we kidnap the buyer." "Or distract… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy. Our thoughts… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
Today I live on an island, in a house that is sad, hard, severe, that I built for myself, solitary on a… — Curzio Malaparte Copy Share Image
It's very hard to be cut off in Glasgow because it's such a small city. You know, we have the highest rate… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
“All others are outside myself; I lock my door and bar them out The turmoil, tedium, gad-about. I lock my door upon… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
There's a lot of forces opposed to legalization marijuana, so I don't want to put the cart before the horse. It's looking… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
“Honest men in prison know that there is no such thing as "brainwashing" or "breaking." These expressions of self-delusion never find use… — Jim Stockdale Copy Share Image
Well I've always said that fame and fortune - the two things that one seems to go after when they go into… — Dave Madden Copy Share Image
I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Of course nothing is ever done about a [presidential] commission report, except, they say, once a man at the state prison for… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“You know, when you’re in jail with a whole bunch of people who think they did bad and think they got wrong… — Marlin Marynick Copy Share Image
Mr. McCain fought in Vietnam. I think that he has enough blood of peaceful citizens on his hands. It must be impossible… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
At the age of 46, in my sixth prison term, it was the second prison I was in - California Rehabilitation Center.… — Susan Burton Copy Share Image
Mexico has many more kidnappings than the United States. The U.S. has very few kidnappings.The reason is, in the United States, we… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
The thing is, Guantánamo is also a naval base, and they're under the delusion - especially the people on the naval side… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
I don't understand what people are talking about in different rhymes glorifying jail. If you like going to bed early, getting yelled… — Sadat X Copy Share Image