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Prison Quotes by Peter Benenson
- Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder…
- The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison,…
- Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the…
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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… — Hannah Arendt
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation. — Conrad Black
- As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,… — Julian Assange
- Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing. — A. R. Ammons
- You still owe me a million dollars." I'd presented him with a bill for proving his innocence and getting him freed from… — Darynda Jones
- Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent… — Georges Bataille
- The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see… — Annie Besant