Civil war Quote by Arianna Huffington Download Open image ““the word “deadline” has its American origin in Civil War prison camps;”” — Arianna Huffington ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civil war War
“(At PDS, we often lamented that there were never waiting lists for prison—just for alternatives to prison.) But” — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable. — Joseph Brodsky 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 time in prison, unless you create it for yourself. People on the outside seem to believe time passes slowly in prison, but it doesn't. The truth is that time doesn't pass at all. It's an eternal vacuum, and each moment is meaningless because it has no context. Tomorrow may as well be yesterday. That's why there's so… — Damien Echols Copy Share
“At the same time, the end of the prisoner exchanges compelled the South to build a large prison camp such as the one at Andersonville. Even before the policy change, the prisoner exchange, which had flourished during the early years of the war, was complicated. Though it’s hard to imagine today, the two sides used a parole system by which… — Charles River Editors Copy Share
“The American prisoner's greatest obstacle to achieving something of importance is a lack of communication with the outside world. When prison administrators manage to cut prisoners off from their families, friends, and outside associates, they gain an impressive level of control over their incarcerated charges. The problem with this is that this lack of communication then hinders prisoners from being… — Christopher Zoukis Copy Share
“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.” — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
“Prison administration is concerned with this phase of procedure because of the generally accepted notion--in and out of prisons--that money can get away with… — Lewis E. Lawes Copy Share Image
“Prison education is a concept whose time has come. It is time to stop studying the issue and stop discoursing. It is time to… — Christopher Zoukis Copy Share Image
Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
“To live the lives we truly want and deserve, and not just the lives we settle for, we need a Third Metric, a third… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
The next generation will remake the world in a way that allows us to live in a more sustainable way, both personally and globally. — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
The Huffington Post Investigative Fund's goal is to produce a broad range of investigative journalism created by both staff reporters and freelance writers, with… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
A lot of effort and money are - rightly - expended keeping the president physically safe. But it's up to the president to maintain… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
There is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
The journey toward self-discovery is life's greatest adventure. — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
What won't work - what can't work - is to act like the last years never happened, and that the survival of the [mass… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
More young people are volunteering than ever before. More people are including service to others on their busy lives' to do list. The promise… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Being fearless doesn't mean living a life devoid of fear, but living a life in which our fears don't hold us back — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
“Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
“Whatever happened in those more than one hundred years, from the time my great-great-great grandfather studied law to the time when my own father… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“AUSTRALIA, LIKE THE UNITED STATES, experienced a different path to inclusive institutions than the one taken by England. The same revolutions that shook England… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“These are all good things, I said. But no one knows where your country is or who you are. You don't have a familiar… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“Thinking about the weather was one way of shutting out of his mind the appalling bloody human mess sprawled out over the bed of… — Mark Ellis Copy Share Image
It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars;… — Homer Bone Copy Share Image
“ “In the South, football is confused with religion, chivalry, the Civil War, and women.” -Diane Roberts, The Quotable South ” — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
“By the following morning, September 15, Jackson had positioned nearly fifty guns on Maryland Heights and at the base of Loudoun Heights. Then he… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“Civil wars...are the best wars for the writer...because they have a way of continuing long afterwl wars between nations are resolved; because, with the… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image