Prison Quotes

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In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for… — John Yoo
The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life. — Philip Zimbardo
I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison,… — Michael Eric Dyson
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts… — Albert Einstein
In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this need for an… — Eugene Ionesco
I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But… — Neil Postman
If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the… — Edward Abbey
By the way, a gendarme assured me this is not a prison. — E E Cummings
The whole family is a bunch of dangerous freaks...Most are ex-cons or junkies or deranged from inbreeding. Five have died violently, three are back in… — Tim Dorsey
And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep. — Albert Camus
Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better… — Eugene V. Debs
Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be… — Terry Pratchett
Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live. — Jack Kerouac
What are you doing here?â€ [ndr prison] Selling Girl Scout cookies,â€ I said. â€œWant some? The Samoas are terrific.â€ (Max II to Max) — James Patterson
And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their… — Haruki Murakami
To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp… — W. S. Gilbert
It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come. — Malcolm X
A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples.… — Bertrand Russell
Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison. — M. John Harrison

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