Prison Quotes

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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude… — Hannah Arendt
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend… — Julian Assange
As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to… — Julian Assange
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison… — Michael Badnarik
I'm never going to get married again. Three strikes, you're out. I think if I would try to get married again in California, I have… — Roseanne Barr
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage;… — Georges Bataille
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars. — Beck
Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are paying for it all. — Dan Benishek
The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see but dimly during… — Annie Besant
I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and to Harvard before that, that… — Benazir Bhutto
I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have… — Juliette Binoche
All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation. — Conrad Black
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. — William Blake
Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino. — Lisa Bonet
I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job.… — James Brown
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there. — Charles Bukowski
Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. — Richard Burton
America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better… — George W. Bush
The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell. — George W. Bush

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