What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out… — Michael Vick Copy Share Image
As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate… — John Spratt Copy Share Image
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“If the incarceration experience doesn't break your spirit, it changes you in a way that you lose many fears. You begin to… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
For many of us, the hospital was as much a refuge as it was a prison. Though we were cut off from… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, 'Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!' And I'm like, 'Okay I don't know you, I… — Sherri Shepherd Copy Share Image
Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded,… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time. This is what really bothers you, that… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting… — Lani Guinier Copy Share Image
An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
There is no captive in a worse state than the one who is captivated by his worst enemy (Shaytan) and there is… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Now the Thanksgiving meal is just so unnecessarily difficult. I mean even mashed potatoes - it's like the most difficult kind of,… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“I've been in prison, you see. Only three weeks, and only on remand,but when you've had to play chess twice a day… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
If you look at Cuba what's the benefit in being in Cuba? Really? It's almost like being in prison. You can't think.… — Pitbull Copy Share Image
I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think. As I worked, physical and… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We're being subject to incredible amounts of surveillance, the police are taking on draconian powers and violating our rights. I think this… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
I was sitting out by my tennis court one day, and I looked up at my house, and it looked like a… — Demond Wilson Copy Share Image
“I know she re-entered her prison with pain, with reluctance, with a moan and a long shiver. The divorced mates, Spirit and… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I used to be a bit obsessed by acting but not anymore. I do enjoy acting but I probably enjoy it more… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I see a huge, huge divide between the people who are facing the most barriers and violence and the kinds of stories… — Grace Dunham Copy Share Image
If a citizen who's committed many crimes, instead of going to prison would say something against me or another politician, or against… — Giulio Andreotti Copy Share Image
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
“Prison is designed to separate, isolate, and alienate you from everyone and everything. You're not allowed to do so much as touch… — Damien Echols Copy Share Image
The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Your Majesty?” Alric looked up at the thief with a scowl. “I just want to say for the record that as far… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
I think the other side of this is in this balance between the social state and the punishing state, remember, the social… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I didn't mind the 23 hours a day solitary confinement for the majority of the time, because after the first few years… — Nick Yarris Copy Share Image
As a player, remember that the bench is not a prison, but an extension of the first group. Concentrate on the quality… — Stan Albeck Copy Share Image
“The cliche about prison life is that I am actually integrated into it, ruined by it, when my accommodation to it is… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
We are having a public health response to this epidemic of prescription opioids. We are looking at treatment options, there are drugs… — Perri Peltz Copy Share Image
We can agree that keeping serious criminals in prison is an effective means of preserving public safety, but we must also recognize… — Ken Cuccinelli Copy Share Image
Regardless of nationality, all men are brothers. God is "our Father who art in heaven." The commandment "Thou shalt not kill" is… — Ben Salmon Copy Share Image
Why can't I solve this problem by killing someone? she though petulantly, then comforted herself with the mantra that had kept her… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
You put a tattoo on yourself with the knowledge that this body is yours to have and enjoy while you're here. You… — Don Ed Hardy Copy Share Image
