Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
The first time I was privileged to meet president Mandela was during his visit to Malawi... shortly after he was released from… — Joyce Banda Copy Share Image
But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I went to Rikers one time to do 'Third Watch,' and I remember thinking, 'Wow, this is a scary place.' We were… — Selenis Leyva Copy Share Image
Scapegoating will go on forever. We need someone to blame - illegal immigrants, single moms, people in prison. We need someone to… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers--he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman… — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a… — King James I Copy Share Image
The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life. — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Form is burden. Sometimes being part of the system enslaves the mind and greatly limits the imagination by enslaving it to form.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
You can sail in the desert with a ship of fools. You can smuggle in Moses and his book of rules. But… — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Tradition is the prison where change is detained... To make a change, you need to agree that you are not going with… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I've got a lot to say about my life, about what I went through in prison and about what my family went… — Boosie Copy Share Image
I was in the most restricted prison in China, the most tough. The design of the prison is modeled for internal crimes… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Prison conditions in some parts of the world can be very poor, overcrowded and, in some cases, dangerous and sentences can be… — David Lidington Copy Share Image
Virtue is uncommon in all the classes of humanity; and I suppose it will scarcely be imagined more frequent in a prison… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Fortunately for me, or unfortunately, they made me an editor of the Parish Prison Pelican. I could read and write, and I… — Ron Shock Copy Share Image
Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least. — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
As I have pointed out time and again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to send little kids to school than… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
