If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I mean, hunger strike is almost a ritual in a Russian prison colony. It actually has been going back to Soviet times.… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
A lot of writers ... sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
“He who has never tasted jail Lives well within the legal pale, While he who's served a heavy sentence Renews the racket,… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It's crazy. I've made mistakes. I have to… — Abby Lee Miller Copy Share Image
They released me early because I was a threat to the prison. The whole prison was on lockdown. It was actually really… — Khloe Kardashian Copy Share Image
Keeping some people behind bars often hurts more than it helps - not only for the people who had been incarcerated and… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
Well yet, this life such as it is, yet we love it, and loath we are to end it; and if it… — Lancelot Andrewes Copy Share Image
“They say that an educated inmate will not reoffend. This is not because an education assures that this guy will get hired… — Gregory Boyle Copy Share Image
We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to… — James Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and… — Billy Sunday 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
... the Lord Jesus said, 'To those who are in bonds, Come out, and to those who are in prison, Go forth'… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Between 1995 and 2005, the prison population grew by 30 percent, meaning an additional half million criminals were behind bars, rather than… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“Prisons are about addictions. Most prisoners are casualties of their own habits. They have all created victims, some in cruel and callous… — Stephen Reid Copy Share Image
There are likable characters in prison. Sometimes the worst criminals are also some of the most charming people. — Taryn Manning Copy Share Image
For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: "Even if you put me in prison,… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
Like many resisting oppression, Palestinian Gandhis are likely to be found in prisons after being repressed by Israeli soldiers or police or… — Yousef Munayyer Copy Share Image
The piebald mare paws at the sand; I see her digging out of the corner of my eye and hear her grinding… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria. — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
She closed her hands around his and shut her eyes, imagining their bed cut free of this strange prison, floating through space… — Cassandra Clare 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
Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
Many things embarrass me, but reading isn't one of them. I'm not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
That's why you need the war on drugs to put all these pot smokers in prison so that the prisons remain full… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration,… — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
There's a small group of music critics in the States who will forgive you anything - jazz, a long prison term, or… — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind. — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
“So I learned that after a single day's experience of the outside world a man could easily live a hundred years in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Individuals get caught up in the policy of their country. In prison, for instance, a warden or officer is not promoted if… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I told him that I thought it was law logic - an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice,… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“This is what I knew: I was trapped in my body, in that bed, at that moment. But even as I looked… — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
“I know that,” he said. “But it isn’t just a piece of paper that makes a man. And it isn’t just prison… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Many other countries have tried this and getting businesses to work in partnership in prisons, in prison and with prison labour, and… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
I could have ended up in a gang or in prison because Harlesden is real rough and I was always a naughty… — James DeGale Copy Share Image
