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“I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.”

Thinking Environment Mass Humorous Murder Prison

Author:Natalie Merchant

“Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.”

Ifs Years House Talking Crime Changed England Prison Caught Homosexual

Author:Patrick Macnee

“I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.”

Years Political Used Father Rooms Party Leader Subjects Members Prison Congress British Fighter Evening Living Room Unfamiliar Prominent Freedom Fighter Locality Congress Party

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“I believe, and I may be wrong, the system sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Prison is supposed to rehabilitate, but they don't do that in a lot of cases.”

Believe May Sometimes I Believe Cases Prison

Author:Amaury Nolasco

“Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.”

Whole Individual Discipline Prison Pursue Jail Mechanism Elsewhere Self Discipline

Author:Michel Foucault

“The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.”

Want Ideas Sometimes Four Wall Paper Spring Prison Connected Four Walls

Author:Ted Nelson

“If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.”

Ifs Want Giving Years Young Mother Chance Pay Four Taxes Prison Horrible Four Years Contributors

Author:Kevin O'Leary

“In return for financial support will advocate admission of Jews to England; This however impossible while Charles living. Charles cannot be executed without trial on adequate grounds for which do not presently exist. Therefore advise that Charles be assassinated, but will have nothing to do with arrangements for procuring an assassin, though willing to help in his escape. [King Charles I was in prison at the time].”

Helping Support Impossible Willing Return Kings England Prison Financial Jew Trials Arrangements Adequate Advise Assassins Admission Financial Support Charles I

Author:Oliver Cromwell

“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.”

Ifs Country Might Today Father Military Becoming Politician Six My Family Prison Professors Grandfather Dictatorship My Grandfather

Author:George Papandreou

“Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.”

Children Crime Prison Committed Miles Parks Prisoner Yards Vans Horrific

Author:Trevor Phillips

“The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons.”

People Knows Use Problem Sides Groups Car Prison Bombs Troops Both Sides Atrocities American Troops

Author:Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

“I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality.”

Ideas Law Interest Elements Prison Criminals Touched Criminality Criminal Law

Author:Elizabeth Strout

“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.”

“The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and our frustrations are unhappy.”

Desire Humanity Conditions Buddhism Prison Unhappy Frustration Humankind Illusory

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The pathway to enlightenment is happiness. It doesn't really matter if you're successful, if you're in prison, if you're dying - if you have contact with light.”

Ifs Matter Light Happiness Successful Dying Buddhism Enlightenment Prison Contact Pathways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.”

Ifs World Want Whole Helping Lasts Fighting Voice Heard Breaths Court Prison International Whole World Ukrainian

Author:Yulia Tymoshenko

“Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently - were proper instruments for incentivizing the judiciary. That's what the 'kids for cash' judges were apparently experimenting with.”

Kids Bits Steps Judging Industry Instruments Prison Cash Right Direction Judiciary Steps In The Right Direction

Author:Thomas Frank

“You can be locked away in prison and be free if your mind is not a prison. Or you can be walking around with lots of credit cards and be in a prison, the prison of your own mind, the prison of your illusions.”

Ifs Inspirational Mind Buddhism Walking Illusion Prison Credit Cards Locked Credit Card

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.”

Country Greater Ignorance Politician Prison Lawyer Inmates

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government.”

Mind Government Today Names Speak Share Internet Citizens Let Me Prison Chinese Addresses Chinese Government

Author:Tom Lantos

“And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.”

People Knows Able Prison Our Society Juvenile Detention

Author:Walter Dean Myers

“I have been shown in darkness, light, and have learned that even in prison, one can be free. I am grateful. I have come to see that there is good in every situation, sometimes we just have to look for it.”

Looks Has Beens Sometimes Light Situation Darkness Grateful Prison I Am Grateful Darkness To Light

Author:Kayla Mueller

“I have been shown in darkness, light [and] have learned that, even in prison, one can be free.”

Has Beens Light Darkness Prison Darkness To Light

Author:Kayla Mueller

“Like you, I have been disgraced about what I've seen on TV that took place in prison.”

Has Beens Tvs Like You Prison

Author:George W. Bush

“As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without trial or hearing. I would like to see the government admit they were wrong and do something about it, so this will never happen again to any American citizen of any race, creed, or color.”

Long Government Happens Race Records Color Citizens Court Prison Hearing Trials Concentration Camps Creeds American Citizens Concentration Camp

Author:Fred Korematsu

“If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs.”

Ifs Men Writing Song Prison Train Swamps Gators

Author:Ronnie Van Zant

“After doing two years in prison, trust me, I've seen a lot of tough guys pray. They're not just praying for themselves; they're praying for their family and the people they've let down.”

People Years Two Guy Praying Tough Prison Two Years Trust Me Let Down Tough Guy

Author:Ja Rule

“I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.”

Mind Persons Book Body Wanted Strong Prison Better Person Strong Mind Strong Minded Ged

Author:Ja Rule

“Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.”

Knows Way Prison Superstar Inmates

Author:Ja Rule

“A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight - and when they come out, they're gay.”

People Crazy Stupid Gay Prison Ignorant Controversial Political Correctness Stupid Things Crazy People Stupidest Stupid Republican Being Stupid Born Gay

Author:Benjamin Carson

“We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.”

Want Years Three Next Community Four Program Prison Alternatives Four Years Entry Offenders Re Entry

Author:Janet Reno

“I am at a crossroads; I have always been against armed opposition... I have chosen civil disobedience. But I will apologize to my people if there are funerals coming out of prisons. I will criticize myself and I won't be the mayor of Diyarbakir.”

People Ifs Prison Chosen Opposition Criticize Funeral Coming Out Apologizing Disobedience Mayors Civil Disobedience Crossroads

Author:Osman Baydemir

“Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently, about drug arrests and prison terms and other troubles. I wasn't prepared for the ravaged shakiness of his voice on this record or the raw spoken word pieces or the dark electronic backgrounds.”

Made Stories Voice Term Dark Worry Records Pieces Trouble Heard Hero Drug Prison Prepared Backgrounds Comeback My Hero Spoken Word Herons

Author:Will Hermes

“What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life.”

People Knows Writing Home Fields Football Bed My Family Letters Prison Did You Know Football Field Bunk

Author:Michael Vick

“I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with some of the most difficult people in our society. Buddhism was accessible and helpful for these individuals.”

People Years Individual Difficult Security Buddhism Six Prison Our Society Helpful Maximum Death Row Prison System

Author:Joan Halifax

“You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it.”

Energy Building Prison

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes the shape of that container. So many people you see in prison, unleashing war on their people, they are angry, and they take their anger and put it into a violent container.”

People War Water Shapes Angry Prison Violent Fluid Liquid Containers Unleashing

Author:Leymah Gbowee

“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.”

Guy Rooms Clear Politician Prison Bad Guys Kinky

Author:Kinky Friedman

“If it wasn't for prison, I was in a bad way.”

Author:Jayson Williams

“That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone.”

Knows Stones Prison Isolated Polished

Author:Jayson Williams

“Without [these] lights and [this] little throne our Lord cannot come out of His tabernacle. We give them to Him, and we say to Him: 'Thou are on a beautiful throne. It is we that have erected it for Thee. It is we that have opened the door of Thy prison and rent the cloud that hid Thee, O Sun of Love. Dart Thy rays now on every heart'”

Giving Heart Littles Light Beautiful Lord Sun Doors Prison Clouds Thee Rays Thrones Sacraments Our Lord

Author:Peter Julian Eymard

“The world is a philosophical prison and Man is the philosophical prisoner.”

Men World God Philosophical Prison Prisoner

Author:Kedar Joshi

“The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.”

Wisdom Justice Virtue Philosophical Prison Moderation

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.”

Humans Records Rights Happened Prison Human Rights Iraq Conventions Violation Monstrous Geneva Abu Ghraib Geneva Convention Violation Of Human Rights

Author:Carlos Fuentes

“Let's say that you commit a crime, you get caught, you might get sent to prison. It's going to be bad. But if you get caught spying, you're literally hanged the next morning.”

Ifs Might Next Morning Crime Prison Caught Commit

Author:Jamie Bell

“Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U- Niversity of Gottingen.”

Thinking Eye Views Prison Companion Dungeons Rotting Haggard

Author:George Canning

“Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get.”

Prison Ill Profit Debt Agriculture Good Husband

Book:Some of the Five hundred points of good husbandry, newly corrected and ed. by H.M.W. [2 issues].

Source: Some of the Five hundred points of good husbandry, newly corrected and ed. by H.M.W. [2 issues].

“It was a dangerous profession I had chosen ... because no one likes a funny kid. In fact, adults are scared silly of them and tend to warn children who act out that they are going to wind up in prison or worse. It is only when you grow up that they pay you vast sums of money to make them laugh.”

Children Facts Kids Grows Pay Laughing Growing Up Dangerous Humour Wind Adults Prison Scared Profession Silly Likes Chosen Funny Kid

Book:Leaving home: a memoir

Source: Leaving home: a memoir

“New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.”

Modern New York Prison Towers Soap Whiskey Posters

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.”

World Whole Home Rooms Prison Whole World Native

Book:The Poems of Cowley

Source: The Poems of Cowley