“I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today.” IfsCountryMightTodayFatherMilitaryBecomingPoliticianSixMy FamilyPrisonProfessorsGrandfatherDictatorshipMy Grandfather Author:George Papandreou
“In this prison camp, the Gestapo state brain-police planet Earth, what is normal is insane and what is insane is normal. But it doesn't pay to tell that to the local politicians or other organizational structures that run the place that. They didn't crucify Christ because they liked what he said.” SaidStatesRunningEarthHumanityChristPayBrainPlanetsBuddhismPoliticianNormalPoliceStructurePrisonLocalsInsaneCampsPlanet EarthOrganizationalGestapoOrganizational Structure Author:Frederick Lenz
“The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.” CountryGreaterIgnorancePoliticianPrisonLawyerInmates Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“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 the politicians.” GuyRoomsClearPoliticianPrisonBad GuysKinky Author:Kinky Friedman
“I don't want to paint myself as some kind of saint - that would be laughable - but I do think I've been able over the years to write humanely about subjects who are controversial and even contemptible. I've profiled pedophiles, stalkers, serial rapists, prison gang members and corrupt politicians.” ThinkingWantWritingYearsKindWould BeAbleSubjectsPoliticianMembersPrisonPaintSaintGangControversialSerialsLaughableGang Members Author:Robert Draper
“If a citizen who's committed many crimes, instead of going to prison would say something against me or another politician, or against any other well known person ... I don't want to be disrespectful to anybody but someone who's killed twenty people could easily tell a lie.” PeopleIfsWantWellsPersonsLyingKnownCrimeCitizensPoliticianTwentiesPrisonCommittedWell KnownDisrespectful Author:Giulio Andreotti
“We are not taught to fear our politicians, who can debase our currency, throw us in prison and send us to war - but rather we are taught to fear each other. We are taught to imagine that the real predators in this world are not those who control prison cells, national debts and nuclear weapons, but rather our fellow citizens, who in the absence of brutal control would surely tear us apart!” WorldWarRealImagineThis WorldTearsTaughtCitizensPoliticianWeaponsFellowsPrisonDebtAbsenceNuclearCellsImagine ThatNuclear WeaponsBrutalCurrencyPredatorNational DebtPrison Cells Author:Stefan Molyneux
“They [Federalist European Politicians] divide their time between court room, prison and debating chamber - giving a whole new meaning to the term 'conviction politician'.” GivingWholeTermRoomsPoliticianCourtPrisonConvictionDividesChamberFederalist Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations
“By the end of the documentary [ '13th'], you really understand what prison is, what the prison industrial complex is, where this whole Black Lives Matter movement comes from, the history of resistance, the history of how politicians have used criminality over the decades for a particular political gain. It's to give people an understanding of it so they can make their own decisions about how they want to be in the world.” PeopleWorldWantGivingEndsMatterWholePoliticalUsedUnderstandingBlackDecisionMovementParticularPoliticianGainsPrisonComplexesDecadesResistanceDocumentariesBlack Lives MatterCriminalityBlack Lives Author:Ava DuVernay
“The big frustration for me is that people are growing so cynical about politics that you see them basically shrug and say, "Oh, yeah. Who cares that Harper is shutting down debate? Who cares that he's building prisons, and everything? All the politicians are the same so why should we be outraged about one rather than the other?" And my point is Canadians need to wake up. This is not the Canada they'd recognize if they looked closely.” PeopleCareBuildingPoliticianWake UpPrisonDebateFrustrationCynicalOutraged Author:Justin Trudeau