“Half the published articles on Gaza contain a standard reference to its resemblance to a vast open-air prison (and when I last… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We were all blocked from western media, outside information. We were captured in a virtual prison cell. People would disappear in the… — Lee Hyeon-seo Copy Share Image
After 'Paths to Freedom,' I met some people who used to teach drama in Mountjoy and they said that the prisoners loved… — Michael McElhatton Copy Share Image
For every woman and girl violently attacked, we reduce our humanity. For every woman forced into unprotected sex because men demand this,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
For those of us in the opposition movement under dictatorships, part of our job is confronting police and spending time in prison.… — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
Gaza is often described as 'the world's largest open air prison' because no one is allowed to enter or leave. But that… — Banksy Copy Share Image
The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The main difference is that the enlightened believe that the poor criminal should be rehabilitated while the righteous believe that the immoral… — William Ryan Copy Share Image
The main point in our report was to recommend decriminalization...because of the way laws are applied, which have not worked. We have… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“HM Belmarsh prison, or Hellmarsh as the inmates call it, is a category A prison situated in the South East of London.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts,… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
Society may protect itself without putting a human to death as it would a wild animal. Since we believe each person has… — Richard Viguerie Copy Share Image
“Should I, too, prefer the title of 'non-Jewish Jew'? For some time, I would have identified myself strongly with the attitude expressed… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A primatologist told me you can find love in the eyes of an orangutan. It's that old primate gleam that goes back… — Shawn Thompson Copy Share Image
America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. By trying to seize far more power than is necessary over American citizens, the federal… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
“He waited a few more seconds, hoping her tight jaw would unclench and she’d ask him to stay, but she sat staring… — Bonnie Dee Copy Share Image
One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“For the average person leading an ordinary life, fame holds an hypnotic attraction. Many would sooner perish than exist in anonymity. But… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
The law against sodomy is trying to stop homosexual men from enjoying themselves. That's what the law is all about. But this… — Kevin Pollak Copy Share Image
There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference, a… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“As I believe I have said, everyone in prison is an innocent man. Oh, they read the scripture the way those holy… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think of 'success' as synonymous with, or at least dependent upon,… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
After... The seas have dried out The trains have come to a shrieking holt The hounds of the abyss cease to howl… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Calisto, a companion of Ignatius, and who on recovering from a severe illness had heard of the imprisonment of Ignatius, hastened from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Alright. Well, in all honesty, I don't feel that what I've done is a crime. And I think it's illogical and irresponsible… — George Copy Share Image
Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
“Most of the people on Death Row are here for no other reason than that their case got more publicity than others.… — Damien Echols Copy Share Image
Men who are in prison for rape think it's the dumbest thing that ever happened... they were put in jail for something… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“You were already in a prison. You've been in a prison all your life. Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Parties that ended with stabbing weren't part of the long term plan. Neither was being tied to a man in prison, working… — Joanna Wylde Copy Share Image
And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the… — Janet Reno Copy Share Image
“I wake up at cock crow and I know where I am. I'm in the parlour. I'm in the scullery. I'm in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently -… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
I ask you and all the leaders of the world: Would you act differently, would you keep silent and do nothing if… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
The man who is asleep reacts; he knows nothing of action. And reaction is a binding: it binds you into new prisons,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Take a trip in my mind see all that I've seen, and you'd be called a beast, not a human being... Fuck… — Edward Humes Copy Share Image
The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
On the surface, you think you wouldn't have to think at all about being asked to play Bilbo in 'The Hobbit.' It's… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
