Prisons Quotes

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We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and… — Kinky Friedman
Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types. — John Grisham
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to… — Cyril Connolly
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and… — James Connolly
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland… — Mahmoud Darwish
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous… — Angela Davis
I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons. — Angela Davis
First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons. — Angela Davis
The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous. — Jack Herer
I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking… — James Inhofe
Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with… — Peter Kropotkin
What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer. — Aung San Suu Kyi
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the… — Horace Mann
You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli forces, and everything stops in these… — Hassan Nasrallah
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them. — Vladimir Putin
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. — John Ruskin
If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up. — Mike Singletary
Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and… — Eckhart Tolle
Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have… — Yulia Tymoshenko

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