The fact is that, in prison, you can't just go and be locked up and serve your time. That's not an option.… — Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Copy Share Image
I dislike the phrase ‘Internet friends,’ because it implies that people you know online aren’t really your friends, that somehow the friendship… — John Green Copy Share Image
I mean, I was just one of the ones who got exposed, and because of the position I was in, where I… — Michael Vick Copy Share Image
Death, torture and prison are part of daily life for the youth of Iran. They are not like us, my friends and… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Through it all, this wild life on and off the road , through Jordanian deserts , Spanish islands, German prisons, Caribbean tax… — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He… — Philip Kaufman Copy Share Image
If you meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Spiritual models for me are the communities of Tibetans living in exile in India, or the banjars of Bali, which exist in… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
No, you can take it from an expert in cover-ups-I've lived through Watergate-that nothing less than a resurrected Christ could have caused… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
I wrote a lot of lyrics in prison, but they'd all be like, 'Crawls upon the shoulders, hatred in the eyes.' I… — Ian Brown Copy Share Image
What's that?" he snarled, staring at the envelope Harry was still clutching in his hand. "If it's another form for me to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The tears in my pus-filled eyes became a thousand little crystals of ever color. Like stained-glass windows, I thought. God is with… — Henri Charriere Copy Share Image
Awakenings are always terrifying as they force you to realize your past has been lived in confinement, the most disturbing part is… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
“Also, it'd be kinda hard to be together if I was in prison." "What are you talking about?" Helen asked, suddenly alarmed.… — Josephine Angelini Copy Share Image
He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
We think of our prison inmates as the dregs of society, and we scorn them and push them off to the side… — Adrienne C. Moore Copy Share Image
We've all had some level of injustice, whether 20 years in prison, or 20 minutes sitting in your car waiting for a… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
“Great institutions have leaders who are proud of what they do, and who engage with everyone who makes up those institutions, so… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
I knew of a man who was sent to the State Prison for twenty-five years. All these years he was always thinking… — Harriet Tubman Copy Share Image
“[Solitary confinement] is terrible. That is terrible. You're in a grave. You can't do anything. Everything's brought to you and you're in… — Megan Sweeney Copy Share Image
And other people get the opportunity to leave prison, and then they do something to get put back in there because they… — Laura Prepon Copy Share Image
“The fact is that the modern implementation of the prison planet has far surpassed even Orwell ’s 1984 and the only difference… — Paul Joseph Watson Copy Share Image
The big frustration for me is that people are growing so cynical about politics that you see them basically shrug and say,… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
So a war begins. Into a peace-time life, comes an announcement, a threat. A bomb drops somewhere, potential traitors are whisked off… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
We don't claim to have perfect morals, but at least we have a huge area of things that, while legal, are beneath… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I is a great prison. It is your slavery and bondage to the mind. The moment you enter beyond the mind, you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our selves, could become a prisoner, we tend… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
“Dora was stunned by this information. She stopped. 'Do you mean' she said, 'that they're completely imprisoned in there?' Mrs. Marks laughed.… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
No one is punished for free speech in Cuba. If free and inconvenient thoughts were a crime in our country, I would… — Mariela Castro Copy Share Image
Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Years now, decades, of visiting my parents behind bars taught me hard lessons about how broken the criminal justice system is -… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
We would never throw up our hands and say to those white boys - well, too bad, if you had just stayed… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages. People feel they know me… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
These 2.3 million prisoners, somehow we've convinced ourselves that's normal and rational, more prisoners than soldiers, more prisoners than China, more than… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
“ Jerry-5486: "The most apparent thing that I noticed was how most of the people in this study derive their sense of… — Philip G. Zimbardo Copy Share Image
The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The first thing I did when I was forty years old, I put handcuffs on and I jumped off Alcatraz prison and… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
“As he saw it, the central issue had shifted from the purely racial to the economic. King likened the situation to a… — Hampton Sides Copy Share Image