Detention Quotes

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.

— Robert Bourassa

Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.

— Najib Razak

During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.

— Ai Weiwei

All roads lead there child. You should know that." "Detention?

— Rick Riordan

I wasn't a very well-behaved girl. I was often in detention for impertinence.

— Brigitte Macron

I used to spend every morning in detention at my old school.

— Jake Lloyd

When I was younger, I had pink underneath my hair, and I got detention. I went to an all-girls school where you…

— Gia Coppola

[Barack] Obama believes you can hold enemy combatants, unlawful enemy combatants at Gitmo without a criminal trial because this is law of…

— Chris Matthews

“Ann did detention like Whitney Houston did cocaine—frequently and without consideration of the consequences.”

— Sage Steadman

I'm just some irritating, lying, ginger kid from Cornwall who should have been locked up in some youth detention centre. I just…

— Aphex Twin

I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community…

— Adam Rapp

Gang members aren't frightened into acceptable behavior by increased penalties, enhanced punishments, and the promise of new detention facilities.

— Greg Boyle

“You're my friend, Dani. that's what we do. 'sides how can i love you forever if you're always stuck in detention alone?”

— Angela Fristoe

“Sentence every immoral thought for detention and prosecution. Immorality is a powerful gadget that brings down great monuments of success. Don’t entertain…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I was standing on a ladder outside the Homestead juvenile immigrant detention center outside Miami, looking over the fence, and I saw…

— Kamala Harris

I believe that we need to set conditions to close the detention facility at Guantanamo. This includes retaining the option to transfer…

— Pete Visclosky

I like to help kids, work with kids in detention homes. Don't tell a kid what's right and wrong. He knows what's…

— Evel Knievel

I was in juvenile detention center, and I was in Rikers Island. And there was an anthology written by the inmates called…

— Lemon Andersen

There must be no abuse of people and they did ask that the South Africa Government should give them whatever support they…

— Thabo Mbeki

Contrary to what certain governments say, human rights are universal. Arbitrary detention, torture and discrimination hurt the human dignity of anybody, whatever…

— Shirin Ebadi

There was a time when my uncle was in an immigration detention center, and members of our community would take turns visiting…

— Opal Tometi

One of the things that concerns me is the lack of adult supervision, and more specifically, caring adult supervision, at various reform…

— Adam Rapp

I don't know if one's more typecasting than the other, or what I am more like. But I know that the high…

— Judd Nelson

In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories…

— Barack Obama

The U.N. [the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention] has looked into this whole situation. They spent eighteen months in formal,…

— Julian Assange

There could be constitutional problems with executive detention if it is seen to be arbitrary. I didn't actually say that the NSW…

— George Brandis

Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts:…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is perfectly clear that people, given no alternative, will choose tyranny over anarchy, because anarchy is the worst tyranny of all...…

— Eric Sevareid

Be your kid's collaborative partner, but also be a collaborative partner with the folks at school. Schools can be pretty unilateral too.…

— Ross W. Greene

“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course…

— Christopher Hitchens

I wrote my first rhymes around 8th grade. After serving a year in juvenile detention, I decided to pursue my career as…

— Yukmouth

My mother became much older when I came out (ed's note: of detention). She had problems with her hearing and high blood…

— Ai Weiwei

I went to public school, elementary through high school. I went to homecoming, to football games, pep rallies, I got detention, I…

— Raven-Symone

I went to live with my grandparents when my parents threw me out. Then I went to prison at the age of…

— Bez

We who advocate peace are becoming an irrelevance when we speak peace. The government speaks rubber bullets, live bullets, tear gas, police…

— Desmond Tutu

“I think I'd rather be heading to detention right now than to talk to him. My stomach is tied up in so…

— Colleen Hoover

My detention has been worth every second if only to prove my innocence to those who truly matter most my countrymen.

— Joseph Estrada

I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now…

— Maggie Grace

I've always had a penchant for dialects. I remember getting detention and being told, 'Have a think about where doing these funny…

— Nolan North

“Detention, Saturday night, my office,” said Snape. “I do not take cheek from anyone, Potter . . . not even ‘the Chosen One.’ ”

— J.K. Rowling