Prisons Quotes

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The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality. — John D. MacDonald
If the heart is cleansed by the love of Jesus Christ, and if the heart loves Him, one can resist all tortures. What would a… — Richard Wurmbrand
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do? — Jerry Brown
I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth — Mumia Abu-Jamal
The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with… — Jane Goodall
I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate. — Jack Layton
We talk about civilization as though it's a static state. There are no civilized people yet, it's a process that's constantly going on... As long… — Jacque Fresco
In our society, we move people out of government. It's all operated by machines, meaning â€“ not the people, just the products: the farming, the… — Jacque Fresco
As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized.Â When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that will… — Jacque Fresco
The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business. — Eduardo Galeano
Nobody is freeâ€¦ Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons. — Ted Simon
The sick man must follow his illness to the place where it is treated. He is set aside in one of the technical and secret… — Michel de Certeau
We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons. — Gale Sayers
When calling for authenticity, we need to take seriously the brokenness and sinfulness of the human heart. If to be authentic means to be who… — Erwin McManus
I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me… — Janis Karpinski
He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced labor… — Hannah Arendt
In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do. The black planes… — Kathy Acker

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