Asylums Quote by Ben Okri Download Open image “Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.” — Ben Okri ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Asylums Cases Planets Realms
Prison conditions in some parts of the world can be very poor, overcrowded and, in some cases, dangerous and sentences can be much tougher… — David Lidington Copy Share Image
I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired. — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
My concern is not for the judicial system, but for the reality that the shark fin mafia of Costa Rica has a price on… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Divided, cut up by borders, frontiers, fences and prohibitions, our wretched planet flew on, spinning into the icy emptiness of space, toward the sharp… — Georgi Vladimov Copy Share Image
Like other human institutions, courts and juries are not perfect. One cannot have a system of criminal punishment without accepting the possibility that someone… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
In Alabama this would be a capital case, and if we don't get justice in Australia we're going to pursue the death penalty here — Troy King Copy Share Image
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing.… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them. One way or another we are living the stories planted in us early or along the way, we are also living the stories we planted - knowingly or unknowingly - in ourselves. We live the stories that either… — Ben Okri Copy Share
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
The earliest storytellers were magi, seers, bards, griots, shamans. They were, it would seem, old as time, and as terrifying to gaze upon as… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Fire is one of my temperaments. It is behind all my work... Fire is a chemical presence. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child. But if we accept them as bona fide political refugees for that reason, doesn't it follow that people living in countries where abortion is illegal (such as Ireland and Poland) should also receive political asylum? After… — Ed Koch Copy Share
3 people get stranded on a remote Island A Banker, a Daily Mail reader & an Asylum seeker All they have to eat is a box of 10 Mars bars The Banker says "Because of my expertise in asset management, I''ll look after our resources" The other 2 agree So the Banker opens the box, gobbles down 9 of the… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share
If things should go too far and deportation of all whiteguard emigres from the United States were demanded, this would be an attempt against… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Let us leave the EEC, abolish human rights laws, take TV sets, pool tables and phones out of prisons, bring back corporal and capital… — Ken Bates Copy Share Image
I rejoice that liberty . . . now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government; a government, which, being formed… — George Washington Copy Share Image
This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,' and some… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
The lunatics have taken over the asylum and we can do anything we want. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation. — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
I decided that we'd have to take our chances with the law and get the hell out of Baltimore. I thought of seeking asylum in Canada or Australia or England, but I didn't want to leave the United States, because for better or worse I'm an American, and this is my land; so I decided to fight it out on… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share
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