Community Quote by Steve Fowler Download Open image “Society is a control freak and community is a prison.” — Steve Fowler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community Control freak Crime
I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society. — Jack Abbott Copy Share Image
“Nothing about the daily workings of the prison system focuses its inhabitants’ attention on what life back on the outside, as a free citizen,… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“Prison is a society cultivating psychological repression. Deceptive, the subservient appearance of its camouflage a rage boiling just beneath the surface.” — Dwight E. Abbott Copy Share Image
A society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons. — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed. — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large. — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time - until… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a… — Antony Starr Copy Share Image
Our system of mass incarceration is better understood as a system of racial and social control than a system of crime prevention or control. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded, fearful, angry.… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
Isolation makes me lonesome, but when I'm lonely in a crowd, I feel desolate and forlorn. — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
There should be a ban on advertising non-stick pans, until someone has invented a non-stick pan. — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
People should stop choosing their partners whilst they are drunk, on the grounds they must sober up at some point. — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as spirits or ghosts, no devils, gods or monsters; but always beware that theists exist and they cause all the… — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
I never read because I always feel there's something more important to do, despite the fact I never do anything worthwhile. — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
For as long as we're plagued by religions, we'll be plagued by extremists, because there's nothing more extreme than believing the human race was… — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
If we have laws against religious hatred and religious prejudice, we should also have laws against atheist hatred and nonbeliever prejudice. — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
The most materialistic, capitalistic and selfish organizations on earth, are ironically and hypocritically those that preach greed is immoral. RELIGIONS! — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
In times of failing health, don't hopelessly pray for the intervention of a mythical god; wish hopefully for an advance in medical science. — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
The sun is our father, the earth is our mother. And God is a myth destroying our family. — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image