Bertrand Russell used to employ the method of "evidence against interest"; in other words of deciding that a critique of capital punishment,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, as human beings, we're very, very alike and a lot more alike than we think, but we have a tendency to… — Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Copy Share Image
I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business. — Eduardo Galeano 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
Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
The only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year. — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was diagnosed, I believed my illness would be my great, lifelong weakness. Bipolar disorder was to be my impenetrable prison,… — AJ Lee Copy Share Image
I still remember, 40 years ago, when I was shackled and put in prison... Being an American citizen didn't mean a thing. — Fred Korematsu Copy Share Image
“I’m glad I went to prison," Grant rasped in Sophie’s ear, so quietly only she could hear. "Because then I found you.” — Jennifer Lane Copy Share Image
Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On greater pirates… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Language controls how you are perceived by others, and in that sense, it is a prison. — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
“Who cut him?' Sam liked saying things like 'Who cut him?' It reminded him of being a kid and watching prison movies,… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Danbury wasn't a prison, it was a crime school. I went in with a Bachelor of marijuana, came out with a Doctorate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It was at home I learned the little I know. Schools always appeared to me like a prison, and never could I… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
