There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words,… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
When [Nelson Mandela] was in prison I admired him for his moral strength... Of his period in power I can see few… — Mengistu Haile Mariam Copy Share Image
“A year as an inmate in Kamĩtĩ has taught me what should have been obvious: that the prison system is a repressive… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
People bring up Willie Horton or some other political bombshell in the past, but what they're not being intellectually honest about is… — Thom Tillis Copy Share Image
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It was tough sitting in jail listening to Jay Leno and Rush Limbaugh and everybody making jokes about me getting shot. And… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
My mom was a manic depressive schizophrenic who, after a year in prison, went home and shot herself. My sister, Kirsten, an… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
When I was diagnosed, I believed my illness would be my great, lifelong weakness. Bipolar disorder was to be my impenetrable prison,… — AJ Lee Copy Share Image
We did tons of research. We went to visit a prison. We had speakers. We have read tons of supplementary material, books… — Jenji Kohan Copy Share Image
I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that I… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
“Moreover, in the system of criminal punishment in the libertarian world, the emphasis would never be, as it is now, on "society's"… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“I stared out the window, at the whitecapped mountains in the distance. It was strange, looking at them from the other side.… — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek;… — Isaiah Copy Share Image
You don't get rich, you don't often have much fun. Sometimes you get beaten up or shot at or tossed into the… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
We deploy a full arsenal of tools against voter fraud, including long prison terms, heavy fines and deportation. We have checks and… — Kate Brown Copy Share Image
What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
The reason Vladimir Putin released Pussy Riot, the Greenpeace activists who were kidnapped in international waters and kept in prison for two… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
People are released from prison so unprepared. They give you $200. We call it gate money. And you have to pay for… — Susan Burton Copy Share Image
In 'The Next Three Days,' even though it was a prison breakout movie, I was asking myself, 'What would I do? How… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I've gone into prisons, I've gone into schools, I've gone into corporations, all over the world. It doesn't matter where you go,… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
There are nations, where people live in captivity, fear and silence. I believe, one day from prison camps and torture cells and… — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Copy Share Image
“If a prisoner paints his cell in the prison, does it mean that he likes the prison? Why does he do so?… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
There is the past and its continuing horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different, outrageous monopolization of the good earth's… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“That's for the best. Otherwise they might realize they're in prison. It can't be helped. You women are used to harems and… — Vladimir Bartol Copy Share Image
“Some people live in cages with bars built from their own fears and doubts. Some people live in cages with bars built… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
If we put everyone on life in prison (no parole), they would be full and overcrowded. They already are. Some prisoners may… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
“Some people say he engineered his own arrest to gain an insight into modern methods of policing for a thriller he had… — Graham Spaid Copy Share Image
A word of advice: If you get the choice between the upper and lower bunks in a cell, choose the lower. Prisons… — William Powell Copy Share Image
The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. One out of every eight prisoners in the world… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
I think of all the things that I've gotten to do, all the wonderful people that I've played with, being in the… — Paul Shaffer Copy Share Image
The occupation is really terrible on a variety of levels. It's terrible on the "shooting people and torturing people in prison" level.… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
Khodorkovsky is richest man. And he lost everything when Putin arrested him and took his company away, and essentially took his company… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“I heard this story once," she said, "where this bloke got locked up for years and years and he learned amazin' stuff… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The whole family is a bunch of dangerous freaks...Most are ex-cons or junkies or deranged from inbreeding. Five have died violently, three… — Tim Dorsey Copy Share Image
As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
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