Prisons Quotes

211 quotes by 177 authors

The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with… — Victor Hugo
He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people...… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout. — Andy Rooney
Not all prisons have bars — Amanda Hocking
Convictions are prisons. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If it works, it works,' Kat told him. 'And if it doesn't?' he asked. She looked at him. 'If it doesn't, then I've heard Monaco… — Ally Carter
When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness… — Anthony Venn-Brown
Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we… — Gregory David Roberts
There is a difference between the inmates of your criminal prisons and the inmates of your cultural prison: The former understand that the distribution of… — Daniel Quinn
Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us in the cultures… — Jane Goodall
This is the language of the world beforeâ€”a world of chaos and confusion and happiness and despairâ€”before the blitz turned streets to grids, cities to… — Lauren Oliver
You expect me to believe that you're being held against your will?" I raised a skeptical eyebrow. "You're roaming around the castle freely." "As are… — Amanda Hocking
Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story… — Rebecca Solnit
The Americans make associations to give entertainment, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries to the antipodes;… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing "God Bless America." No, no, no,… — Jeremiah Wright
I not only play at the prestigious classical concert halls like Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center, but also hospitals, churches, prisons, and restricted facilities for… — Ji-Hae Park
I know prisons from the inside. — Jose Mujica
I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I… — Barbara Ehrenreich
The United States is holding hundreds of suspected terrorists in prisons at Guantanamo and elsewhere. Many are locked up indefinitely. They have not been tried… — Stephen Kinzer
No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons. — Jerry Weller

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