If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of… — Jon Anderson Copy Share Image
Thousands of Americans have given their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq upholding their oaths and defending this nation. Chelsea Manning broke her… — John McCain Copy Share Image
We live in a society that will send us to prison if we make use of time-honored sacred plants to explore our… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don't think… — Frank Abagnale Copy Share Image
Whatever success I have achieved, whatever positions of leadership I have held have depended less on Ivy League degrees or SAT scores… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough? Is my veil in… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
People have passed through a very dark tunnel at the end of which there was a light of freedom. Unexpectedly they passed… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must… — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
...when a wife wouldn't testify, little punishment was meted out. Alex came to understand that only those who pressed charges ever became… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
It seemed that most women, because they had been caught, gave up on the movement and were just trying to pass the… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Grit is not synonymous with hard work. It involves a certain single-mindedness. An ungritty prison inmate will mount a daring new escape… — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
What is the use of fighting for the vote if we do not have a country to vote in? With that patriotism… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
I wouldn't choose conscientious objector and I wouldn't go to Canada. I did what Hap did and almost went to prison. I… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
You have a great many things to do when you are under house arrest. On the one hand, it is more comfortable… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
I had many dolls. And you know how I played with them? By performing insurrections, assemblies, scenes of arrest. My dolls were… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
One of my priorities is giving victims the right to choose different paths to restoration and to healing. It's prioritizing having restitution… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
“Because our men and women are free—possessing nothing, they are free. And you the possessors are possessed. You are all in jail.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“If he's a poet, why's he in jail?" demanded a suspicious voice. Madam Chairwoman shrugged velvet shoulders. "Perhaps he writes free verse,"… — Margery Sharp Copy Share Image
“Abolition is not some disstant future but something we create in every moment when we say no to the traps of empire… — Eric A. Stanley Copy Share Image
It is precisely because a child's feelings are so strong that they cannot be repressed without serious consequences. The stronger a prisoner… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I thought, This is fabulous. It sent shivers up my spine. I thought, What kinds of people are these that would produce… — Bruce Beresford Copy Share Image
“In my view, it is an error to think about 'alternatives to prison' if what we mean by that is 'electronic bracelets,'… — Karlene Faith Copy Share Image
In response to the advocacy of groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving, most states adopted tougher laws to punish drunk driving. Numerous… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We like to think there is this core of human nature – that good people can't do bad things, and that good… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Anecdote: A house that is rooted to one spot but can travel as quickly as you change your mind and is complete… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Provisions for martial law and the institutions to implement a military dictatorship inside the U.S. affect all facets of our society. No… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
All of this is happening because there has still been no reckoning post the financial crisis. So governments have fallen, one bloke… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
In the first batch of readers, back in the '60s and '70s, the criminal class was still literate, so I would get… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
The secret to writing is just to write. Write every day. Never stop writing. Write on every surface you see; write on… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are laws in some countries, I believe, which prohibit anyone from following you in the street, and if someone does, he… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“of the nearly 7.3 million people currently under correctional control, only 1.6 million are in prison.27 This caste system extends far beyond… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Show me a university which is a hotbed of thin-skinned offence-taking, where every unacceptable idea is policed and every person who happens… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
![“Thousands of Americans have given their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq upholding their oaths and defending this nation. Chelsea Manning broke her oath and made it more likely that others would join the ranks of her fallen comrades. Her prison sentence may end in a few months' [time], but her…” quote by John McCain](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/788/john-mccain-465_afghanistan_thousands-of-americans-have-given-their_26162.jpg)
