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Prison Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.
- The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
- Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children…
- The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the…
- Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.
- Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one…
- While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
- This souls'prison we call England.
- Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
- Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
- The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison,…
- There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But…
- Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain…
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- Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars. — Beck
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