Absurd Quote by Jacques Yves Cousteau

“Prison is a society cultivating psychological repression. Deceptive, the subservient appearance of its camouflage a rage boiling just beneath the surface.”

— Dwight E. Abbott

If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them…

— Eugene V. Debs

“But profound as psychology is, it's a knife that cuts both ways (...). I have purposely resorted to this method, gentlemen of the jury,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.

— Celia Green

Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?

— Jessica Mitford

Unfortunately, prisons try very hard to make us inhuman and unreal by denying our image, and thus our existence, to the rest of the…

— Chelsea Manning

It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations. Prison is,…

— Joseph Brodsky

A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

— Clarence Darrow

There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.

— Gerald Stern

Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.

— Robert D. Hare

One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

Though you'd never know it from reading the academic literature, some people in minority communities even see prison as potentially positive for individuals as…

— Heather Mac Donald