A lot of writers ... sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I mean, hunger strike is almost a ritual in a Russian prison colony. It actually has been going back to Soviet times.… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
They released me early because I was a threat to the prison. The whole prison was on lockdown. It was actually really… — Khloe Kardashian Copy Share Image
How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It's crazy. I've made mistakes. I have to… — Abby Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“Though harsh in other respects, prison would be an excellent place to learn a foreign language - total immersion, and you'd have… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
After the fall of communism in Poland, we had a post-communist as president for two terms: Aleksander Kwasniewski. He was very good.… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
“Even beyond private prison companies, a whole range of prison profiteers must be reckoned with if mass incarceration is to be undone,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing "God Bless America."… — Jeremiah Wright Copy Share Image
Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“The U.S. incarceration rate is the world’s highest and some nine to ten times that of many European countries. Almost 1 in… — Joseph E. Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Progressive visions pale and are smashed next to the normalization of market-driven government policies that wipe out pensions, eliminate quality health care,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions.… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
“There are no circumstances in the world that determined action cannot alter, unless, perhaps, they are the walls of a prison cell,… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
To go to prison because of your convictions and be prepared to suffer for what you believe in, is something worthwhile. It… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I love when they show the really gay prisoner in prison shows. He's the cutest inside but you know on the street… — Godfrey Copy Share Image
The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“In 2013, a Pennsylvania study concluded that inmates released to halfway houses across the state had worse recidivism rates than their counterparts… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People who end up in our prisons tend to come from the most difficult backgrounds. They did not have the parental support… — Chris Grayling Copy Share Image
We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without a… — Fred Korematsu Copy Share Image
We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result,… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead… — Mohsen Makhmalbaf Copy Share Image
From kindergarten, I knew that politics is something that you talk about only at home, because if you weren't quiet, your parents… — Kersti Kaljulaid Copy Share Image
I was just coming out of prison, I was married, and I had a kid, and I didn't know what to do,… — Joey Diaz Copy Share Image
“Kaladin frowned. “Wait. Are you wearing cologne? In prison?” “Well, there was no need to be barbaric, just because I was incarcerated.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“The situation was fast approaching that of 1863, when Chicago doctors labeled the prison an extermination camp.” — George Levy Copy Share Image
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“You are serving seven years and four months at a maximum-security prison in Wichita. What are you in for and what is… — Anna Faris Copy Share Image
Writers around the world protested when two Communist writers, Siniavski and Daniel, were sentenced to prison by their own comrades. But not… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
Listen, the conditions in prison as a whole - you're not sleeping in a comfortable bed, you're not eating good food, and… — Michael Sorrentino Copy Share Image
“Is the prison that Mr. Scoundrel lives in at the end of his career a more uncomfortable place than the workhouse that… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
