A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
Are you searching for the river of your soul? Then come out of your prison. Leave the stream and join the river… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
And I never thought about how the lights don't go out, so you never really rest, in that way. I never really… — Taylor Schilling Copy Share Image
“Everyone in prison has an ideal of violence, murder. Beneath all relationships between prisoners is the ever-present fact of murder. It ultimately… — Jack Henry Abbott Copy Share Image
When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail,… — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and… — Lisa Bonet Copy Share Image
“Oklahoma has the highest female incarceration rate in the country, and nearly thirty per cent of female inmates in the state have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have to spring a cat out of Rumelt Animal Shelter. Think of it as a prison break." It does the trick.… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Therefore, she hummed the provincial lullaby she had learned from the officers’ children in the English Quarter of Jerusalem, and watched in… — V.S. Carnes Copy Share Image
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Few would guess that our prison population leaped from approximately 350,000 to 2.3 million in such a short period of time due… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
One story I've been trying to write for years, and haven't been able to finish, is about a face I saw, just… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“Mosca felt filled with panic. She was an arsonist, runaway, thief, spy and murderer’s accomplice, and here she was of her own… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
I was arrested and put in murder's row. They were trying to get me for some murders I didn't do. They had… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I used to teach acting in a maximum security men's prison. I worked with guys with the most dysfunctional behavior problems. I… — Diane Farr Copy Share Image
I think that fashion, for a long time, has been in a prison. Without freedom. I think that without freedom, with rules,… — Alessandro Michele Copy Share Image
“I need a kid like I need a bad heart. A pretty kid is a ticket to trouble... and I'm too old… — Edward Bunker Copy Share Image
I'm a golfaholic, no question about that. Counseling wouldn't help me. They'd have to put me in prison, and then I'd talk… — Lee Trevino Copy Share Image
A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes...and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything . For a person you've taken everything from is… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Prisoners learn how to make do with less, and many of them want to take this ingenuity that they've learned to the… — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
Incarceration didn't change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me. — Roger Avary Copy Share Image
Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Fear is a self imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
It turns out Dimitri had a friend, who had a friend, and despite the best security in the Moroi world, we managed… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“I'm Galileo in prison. I'm a supercomputer in a junkyard. I'm being wasted, Irene. This town is killing me by inches, turning… — Eva Morgan Copy Share Image
What would happen if we financed somebody in the U.S. to destabilize the government of George W. Bush? They would go to… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Are there any good guys on 'Prison Break?' I suppose there might be. I can't honestly say whether I'm a good guy… — Chris Vance Copy Share Image
I myself spent some time in prison, so I know the type of trajectory that a criminal offense can put on someone's… — Angela Stanton-King Copy Share Image
“Hang out in front of a school on a Friday after class has been dismissed. Some notion. I wonder if any inmates… — Caspar Vega Copy Share Image
I'd like to think that if I were in prison for a crime I didn't commit, someone would be trying to get… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
I don't think we can reduce the prison population now, so many of these people are damaged goods once they've spent much… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
Some go to prison for stealing, and others for believing that a better system can be provided and maintained than one that… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
It appears that the murder rate inside prisons is ten times higher than that outside prisons. It must be due to all… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
