Prisons Quotes

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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
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
Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right… — Pete Seeger
We're all our own prisons, we are each all our own wardens and we do our own time. I can't judge anyone else. What other… — Charles Manson
Donâ€™t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind? — Chang-Rae Lee
Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons? — Michel Foucault
What makes Bush different from Hitler? He commits crimes in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons. With all these crimes, they still behave like bullying claimants.… — Ali Khamenei
The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars — Tariq Ramadan
When sex becomes conscious it is love, it is no longer lust. Love brings freedom, and lust simply creates prisons for you. — Rajneesh
The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity. — Leonard Ravenhill
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… — George Bernard Shaw
Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys us that they… — Daniel Quinn
As parenting declines, the need for policing increases. There will always be a shortage of police if there is a shortage of effective parents! Likewise,… — Neal A. Maxwell
In Western Australia, minerals are being dug up from Aboriginal land and shipped to China for a profit of a billion dollars a week. In… — John Pilger
Christians don't steal or lie, they don't get divorced or have abortions. If the Ten Commandments were followed by everyone we would be able to… — John Hagee
One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has led… — Angela Davis
Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to… — Tom Clancy
Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think. — Robert Greene
The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can… — Van Jones

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