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The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Now it is one thing to say I say it that people shouldn't consume psychoactive drugs. It is entirely something else to… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
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“I got out late winter. I was off on the exact day by thirty-some hours, which is not bad calculations. I made… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a… — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
The reason I'm not more political is because I have music. And from a young age, I needed it. After prison, my… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Howard Marks is very intelligent and well read, eloquent, witty, charming. I think it was those qualities that got him through. I… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
Unless your freedom turns into a creative realization, you will feel sad. Because you will see that you are free-your chains are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I have always thought limousines make me dreadfully uncomfortable, just the way that suits do. When I wear a suit, I feel… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
The earth is not a lair, neither is it a prison. The earth is a Paradise, the only one we'll ever know.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's no straight line between closing the mental institutions and filling the prisons but there is some sort of relationship. And it's… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
On one hand, prostitutes don't struggle because it's simply their life. In Mexico and elsewhere, once they get out of these places… — Michael Glawogger Copy Share Image
People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“The prisoners stand on the other side, three of whom require their own cages. He hands out the Eucharist through a sort… — Kerry Weber Copy Share Image
That prison," I said with heartfelt sincerity, "Was absolutely the most awful thing that has happened to me in my entire life."… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Bengt didn’t budge. “Talk to me, damn it.” “Let go!” “And where are you planning to go, Alex?” “Away!” “You can’t get… — G.B. Gordon Copy Share Image
“Realizing the seriously ruthless, venomous habits and agendas of evil always instills a more fierce passion and longing for a closer God.… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Our people outside of prison used my name to mobilize the community locally and internationally. But for me to be treated separately… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The idea that the United States can't guard its own border is silly. It's a sign that were not serious about this...people… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
I know that we've had a lot of immigration. How many immigrants are in prison? And what I found was - and… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. The only… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
“Prison left me with some strange little tics.' She has taken all the door off their hinges in all the apartments she… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think the American people said, look, you know, we can't control what every government does to its people, but we shouldn't… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The [Stanford Prison Experiment] was readily approved by the Human Subjects Research committee because it seemed like college kids playing cops and… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
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“Seasons didn't come behind the nicotine-stained walls of Mountain City's prison, so Harm always imagined it spring--the locust trees clustered with shaggy… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
Crime is a social problem, and education is the only real deterrent. Look at all of us in prison; we were all… — Wilbert Rideau Copy Share Image
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