Prison Quotes

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How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end up… — Grace Lee Boggs
In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Let us leave the EEC, abolish human rights laws, take TV sets, pool tables and phones out of prisons, bring back corporal and capital punishment,… — Ken Bates
I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell, to sacrifice my… — Mahatma Gandhi
Society may protect itself without putting a human to death as it would a wild animal. Since we believe each person has a soul, and… — Richard Viguerie
The national laws of the five regions of India prescribe no cangue, beatings or prison. Those who are guilty are fined in accordance with the… — Hyecho
Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On greater pirates we bestow. To… — Khalil Gibran
There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the dynamic enterprise economy.… — Michael Novak
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel… — William James
Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like the… — Jimmy Carter
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity… — Jean Genet
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the… — Oscar Wilde
We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to… — John Donne
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor. — George Bernard Shaw
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self. — Cyril Connolly
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the… — Evelyn Waugh
Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men… — Victor Hugo
And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to… — Georges Bernanos
The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those admitted to prison… — Michelle Alexander
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men… — Tim Allen

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