Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Without [these] lights and [this] little throne our Lord cannot come out of His tabernacle. We give them to Him, and we… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
"Prison Break" has been a really great experience because of the writers. I think that in television, you can have great directors,… — William Fichtner Copy Share Image
“Man is complete in himself. When they go into the world, the world will disagree with them. That is inevitable. The world… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Let's stop wasting billions of dollars on prisons, which send people home who are too often less capable and more damaged than… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“There is no time in prison, unless you create it for yourself. People on the outside seem to believe time passes slowly… — Damien Echols Copy Share Image
“The cells smell is a great feature of French prisons. Ours in No.44 was one of those fine broad-shouldered up and coming… — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence but a long-winded sentence with a… — Margaret Atwood 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
He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
There's this great Ron Carlson story, "A Note on the Type," and it's about this guy who keeps escaping from prison. He's… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
What's cool about renting is that you don't care about your house getting destroyed. So I think that is the number-one thing.… — Adam DeVine Copy Share Image
I think [Pablo Escobar] wasted an incredibly opportunity which was when he stayed at the prison he made, La Catedral. It was… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
I think for Beecher specifically, Keller was with him when his wife died. Beecher had decided after he first got into prison… — Lee Tergesen Copy Share Image
Why the jailer does not leave open his prison doors,--why the judge does not dismiss his case,--why the preacher does not dismisshis… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The power of the masses can influence any government in the world. The power of the masses can elect an official, start… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in… — Barry McCaffrey Copy Share Image
I did get a really weird fan letter from a bloke in prison. I think it was when I was doing 'Fat… — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“I noticed some scratch marks and faded blood stains high up on a wall. “What happened there?” “An inmate must have tried… — Simon Palmer Copy Share Image
We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I saw the waterboarding device in Cambodia's notorious Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh and did not see another until I was… — Malcolm Nance Copy Share Image
The first time I spoke publicly about the Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanley Milgram told me: "Your study is going to take all… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people… — Lee Tergesen Copy Share Image
In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It's surprisingly nice out here, peaceful and pretty-strange to be standing in the middle of a little garden while enclosed by the… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“It’s a prison. It’s twenty-four-hour-a-day life in a jail cell. We never get out, not even for one second. All we can… — Clare B. Dunkle Copy Share Image
It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I came out publicly as transgender and began hormone replacement therapy while in prison. When I was released, however, there was no… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
Students being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in prison-type schools provide a grim reminder of the degree… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“As I stood in the room looking at it for the last time, I felt again the cold metal of the handcuffs… — Nien Cheng Copy Share Image
“In short, the right given to one man to inflict corporal punishment on another is one of the ulcers of society, one… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I… — Mike Epps Copy Share Image
One of the most recent things we did [in Perceval Press] is a reissue of a fantastic documentary about Russian prison tattoo… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
To revolt within society in order to make it a little better, to bring about certain reforms, is like the revolt of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The BIBLE - banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
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