Prisons Quotes

211 quotes by 177 authors

And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And… — Walter Dean Myers
All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the… — Jean Anouilh
The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have… — Jack Buck
Man is unique in creation because he has a sense of justice and truth. We spend billions of dollars each year to set up court… — Ray Comfort
After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men… — Barbara Deming
I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime… — Lisa Gardner
When it comes to locations, I'm one of those crazy authors who has to see it, touch it, taste it, before I trust myself to… — Lisa Gardner
Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed. — Tupac Shakur
We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles. — Augusto Pinochet
If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs. — Ronnie Van Zant
I am at a crossroads; I have always been against armed opposition... I have chosen civil disobedience. But I will apologize to my people if… — Osman Baydemir
. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and… — Tom McCall
You have a wonderful organization. I understand you have ten thousand here. And if you count the ones in the various federal prisons, it brings… — Will Rogers
Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is mined deep in the earth by poor men who then give it to… — Mike Harding
Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars. — Carrie P. Meek
Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions — Hillary Clinton
I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru. — Daniel Alarcon
However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I donâ€™t mean fight with the power of our… — Cressida Cowell
The Democratic leadership has expressed great concern for the incarceration rate in the commonwealth in the last few years. Now they want to fill the… — Bill Vaughan
The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons. — Jimmy Carter

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