Alternatives Quote by Rick Steves

Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.

— John Grisham

Society is a control freak and community is a prison.

— Steve Fowler

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

— Eduardo Galeano

“Prisons are about addictions. Most prisoners are casualties of their own habits. They have all created victims, some in cruel and callous ways, but…

— Stephen Reid

“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.”

— Angela Y. Davis

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

— Angela Davis

Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted…

— Michael Howard

First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.

— Angela Davis

In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

— Henry David Thoreau

The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have become so…

— Angela Davis

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

— Gerald Stern