Granted Quote by Jane Mayer

It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.

— Molly Ivins

The concern we have is that if somebody from our side gets captured they are going to get their throats slit.

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr

“You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live... I think…

— Daniel Quinn

It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves.

— Ron Paul

For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the…

— Amin Maalouf

“We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living... A part of eugenic politics would finally land…

— George Bernard Shaw

We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the people who will disappear or forget us.

— Lauren Oliver

If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.

— Mohsin Hamid

“Unlike captive animals, people’s perceptions of control or helplessness aren’t entirely dictated by outside forces. We have the ability to create choice by altering…

— Sheena Iyengar

So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become…

— Antonin Artaud

... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything that would…

— Robert Musil

The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.

— Benjamin Carson