In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“I heard this story once," she said, "where this bloke got locked up for years and years and he learned amazin' stuff… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
During the Boom Years, it was so easy to lose sight of basic values. For example, there was lots of nonsense said… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.' Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction,… — Edna O'Brien 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
I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Without the instruments and accumulated knowledge of the natural sciences... humans are trapped in a cognitive prison. They are like intelligent fish… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I couldn't afford to get sick in prison. My sickle cell is no joke, so I couldn't eat poorly or not exercise.… — Prodigy Copy Share Image
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
The way people are treated in them [prisons] is very similar to gulags. — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
I grew up in Huntsville, which is a main prison town. It's crazy. The conditions are so bad in prison, often, for… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I realized that I got problems bigger than anything that can happen in prison. So I started reading books, talking to people… — Tee Grizzley Copy Share Image
Some people are like a defeated warrior: they accept the defeat, go to work, go back home, watch TV silently. That is… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
For children, the era of mass incarceration has meant a tremendous amount of family separation, broken homes, poverty, and a far, far… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes… — Leymah Gbowee Copy Share Image
I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930. — Gregory Corso Copy Share Image
“If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be punishment as well as the prison.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the… — Antonio Negri Copy Share Image
What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out… — Michael Vick Copy Share Image
In the 1990s I got to play in a group that played in prisons in California. We would play in maximum security… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
“Even a strong man had no way left him to fight the prison machine, except perhaps suicide. But is suicide really resistance?… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Formerly these harsh cells in which the discipline of the prison leaves the condemned to himself were composed of four stone walls,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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