Shortly after arriving at a makeshift military jail at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, in May 2010, I was placed into the black hole… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
“You’re used to being the smartest guy in the room. Solitary confinement will do that.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
The impact of solitary confinement can have a devastating consequence to the psychology of the people who are affected. — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO… — Cecily McMillan Copy Share Image
How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant! — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“We are relational creatures. All humans live in community and most people seek social interaction. In western culture, isolation is seen as… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Silence comes in two varieties: One that nourishes and comforts; another that chokes, smothers, and isolates. Solitary confinement is the worst kind… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
As I lay here, trapped in the solitary confinement of my own mind, my thoughts are deafening. Earsplitting, although here I lay,… — Alaxandra Kertesz Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless two men good-humouredly greeted her, and both times she froze into nervous annoyance, and walked on with hastening steps. She got… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Life is a solitary confinement , Every second is a punishment - of a crime , that was never committed , Or… — BinYamin Gulzar Copy Share Image
“College students were instructed to sit by themselves for up to fifteen minutes in a sparsely furnished, unadorned room and “entertain themselves… — James Kingsland Copy Share Image
Most of them were murderers. But when I went there to talk, they were the nicest people. I did a reading. I… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement, — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
Shouldn't the American leadership be addressing what is happening in America, with its domestic policies on racism, discrimination, illegal monitoring, solitary confinement,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Falling and serving a sentence of solitary confinement. Result in the death sentence just filling my running assignment. — Sage Francis Copy Share Image
Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“It was a state of aloneness. It was the kind of place that started shooting political prisoners because it suspected that they… — Will Wiles Copy Share Image
In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
They put me in solitary confinement, and although I went on to do 8,755 days of solitary in total, the first two… — Nick Yarris Copy Share Image
“Every thought in your mind needs to be filtered. If you are going to survive this war, you need to be a… — John Mark Comer Copy Share Image
You start to forget about the world outside - it's not relevant or relatable anymore. The darkest part of solitary confinement is… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
