When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk… — Anthony Venn-Brown Copy Share Image
“This happened in 1932, when the state penitentiary was still at Cold Mountain. And the electric chair was there, too, of course.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton… — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
“Formerly incarcerated people deserve a second shot at life - and all obstacles to their being able to find that second chance… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Prison is a still point in a turning world, and it is very easy to remain in the same place in jail… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990 and he hasn't reoffended.… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope,… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Religion is a bell jar; you cannot find God in that jar, because it is your bell jar, you have created it!… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
A smile costs nothing, but creates much, It happens in a flash, but the memory of it lasts forever, It cannot be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Gospel is not ultimately a defense from pain, it is the message of God's rescue through pain. In fact, it allows… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“The camp lived up to expectations as warmly dressed guards forced them to undress outside the gate where they searched them for… — George Levy Copy Share Image
For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Because your character is always full of ambition, the news of my being locked up must have been much harder on you… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
It has to be about more than punishment. We need to rehabilitate people. We lock up far too many people in America… — Susan Burton Copy Share Image
I certainly want to be involved in politics and help shape the transition. I am in contact with regime critics who had… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, from the prison of past conditioning. Uncertainty is… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The younger you are, the more likely you are to have grown up in a (mostly) lead-free environment, and that means you're… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
I place these numbed wrists to the pane watching white uniforms whisk over him in the tube-kept prison fear what they will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wow. Clearly, I need to find myself an ex-con. Since prison is probably the only place in this city I haven’t looked… — Julie James Copy Share Image
I thought, 'This is not going to drag me down, this is going to make me a better man.' So I came… — Gino D'Acampo Copy Share Image
People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
When my daughter was born, I called her Ella Bella Mandela, because she was born the day after Mandela was released from… — Phil Daniels Copy Share Image
I was certainly naïve about the judicial system in America. There's a lot of people who are in prison who are innocent.… — Sam Rockwell Copy Share Image
One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well… — Lewis Tappan Copy Share Image
I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I… — Andrew Fastow Copy Share Image
Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any theoretical, scientific… — Renzo Novatore Copy Share Image
No one doubts that having a criminal record - whether it results in community probation or prison - is a serious handicap. — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
“It's not like they can take anything from me,' he says later, back with his homeboys in Juvenile Hall. 'Ain't got nothing… — Edward Humes Copy Share Image
Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“That’s a federal crime,” I told him. “Punishable by three to five years in a minimum-security prison. You’ll get passed around like… — T.J. Klune Copy Share Image
“...any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people… — Evelyn Waugh 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
“there is one similarity between a prison guard and a leader: Both have the final word. When a decision is made, it… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
I've shot films in locations that have seemed haunted. I shot a film in a maximum-security prison in Russia. Part of it… — Norman Reedus Copy Share Image
“If I should still be kept in this hole over Christmas, don’t worry about it. I’m not really anxious about it. One… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
For those interested in learning more about corporations and private individuals profiting from the caging of human beings, I highly recommend the… — Michelle Alexander 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
I am not the only one who did not want revenge. Almost all my colleagues in prison did not want revenge, because… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
