“But even if I know what governs their trajectory, if I know the rules of the movement of things and how things… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
A lot of people say, 'Well, I'm just not political.' And I think: Do you have a bank account? You're political. Not… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
It's so hard for me to even acknowledge America without talking about race. If you look at our society, if you look… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of what most yoga teachers do is teach asana practice. While asana discharges stress and so forth, it was never… — James Fox Copy Share Image
In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'The World Is Flat,' I said the world is flat. Yeah, we're all connected. Facebook didn't exist; Twitter was… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
In return for financial support will advocate admission of Jews to England; This however impossible while Charles living. Charles cannot be executed… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made,… — Michael Vick Copy Share Image
There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I've been thinking that school, or certainly the traditional English public school model, is like a prison, in that you can't get… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Sammy could not have known that one day he would come to regard all the things that their loving each other had… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The War on Drugs has failed - but it’s worse than that. It is actively harming our society. Violent crime is thriving… — Sting Copy Share Image
We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney.… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
You know, what makes the prison disappear is every deep, serious attachment. To be friends, to be brothers, to love; that opens… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
If it is right to be legally married, it is right to be legally divorced ... To be deprived of a Divorce… — Mary Edwards Walker Copy Share Image
Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a room with… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In 2004 after winning my first Olympic gold medal I was featured in magazines as an eligible bachelor. Soon after I started… — Justin Gatlin Copy Share Image
“It was that time every afternoon when prisoners were released from their cells for an hour and allowed to walk around the… — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
You have Hillary Clinton who has called black teens or black kids super predators, you have Donald Trump who's openly racist. We… — Colin Kaepernick Copy Share Image
Jesus tells us what the 'protocol' is, on which we will be judged. It is the one we read in chapter 25… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“They dream of the happiness of stretching out one's legs and of the relief one feels after going to the toilet. In… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Incarceration is a sustained, lifetime lynching, meant to discard your soul and make a shell of you in plain life. Make you… — Junauda Petrus Copy Share Image
It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
When I was a child, for a public/civil servant to be caught in corrupt practices, that individual will be a pariah. He… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
For reasons that have stunningly little to do with crime or crime rates, we, as a nation, have chosen to lock up… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
At the end of the elementary program, I then had to move onto high school. Simultaneously, my parents moved to Attica to… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
If it works, it works,' Kat told him. 'And if it doesn't?' he asked. She looked at him. 'If it doesn't, then… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
“The greatest minds and the most advanced engineering went into its creation. They carved the prison out of solid rock from the… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Derrick flies through the portal first. “Look at you,” he says, stopping to study me. “Alive. Unscathed. Good. If you hadn’t been,… — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Concentrated power can be always wielded in the interest of the few and at the expense of the many. Government in its… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
“In North Korea a person has two lives, natural and political. But once you get sent to a prison camp your political… — Bradley K. Martin Copy Share Image
We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Shortly before my arrest, my girlfriend at the time, who's now my wife of ten years, told me she was quitting drugs… — Christian Hosoi Copy Share Image
