Convicts Quotes - Page 2

• I set it off with my own rhyme / cause I'm as ill as a convict who kills for phone time

  Nas

  Phones, Causes, Rhyme

  Song: Halftime

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• Convicts are the best audience I ever played for.

  Johnny Cash

  Audience

  "The Man in Black reaches the end of the line" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2003.

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• Who would you vote most likely to succeed? Bob Arum - White, Jewish, a graduate of Harvard, a Kennady Raider, United States Attorney. Don King - black, poor, out of the hard core getto of Cleveland, Ohio, numbers runner, a little confectionary dealer, ex-convict. Now who would you vote to succeed? It would be hands down........ Yet in this great land called America, I have out performed, outachieved, been more recognizable, did more, broke more records, and had more of a phenominal career, where Arum can't tie my shoe string. You understand?

  Don King

  Kings, Careers, Shoes

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• As a private person, I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard. Where every prospect pleases, man is at his vilest when he erects a billboard. When I retire from Madison Avenue, I am going to start a secret society of masked vigilantes who will travel around the world on silent motor bicycles, chopping down posters at the dark of the moon. How many juries will convict us when we are caught in these acts of beneficent citizenship?

  David Ogilvy

  Passion, Dark, Moon

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• Too many whites are getting away with drug use... Too many whites are getting away with drug sales... The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Rivers, Drug Use

  "The Rush Limbaugh Show", October 5, 1995.

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• Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our notice, but because it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves; and the officious monitor is persecuted with hatred, not because his accusation is false, but because he assumes that superiority which we are not willing to grant him, and has dared to detect what we desired to conceal.

  Samuel Johnson

  Regret, Hatred, Advice

  Samuel Johnson (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.131

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• Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

  Raquel Welch

  Sex, Symbols, Sex Symbol

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.

  Samuel Johnson

  Grateful, Race, Insulting

  "The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides".

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• Light is important to us humans. It influences our moods, our perceptions, our energy levels. A face glimpsed among trees, dappled by the shadows and the green-tinged light reflected from the forest, will seem quite different to the same face seen on a beach in hard, dry, sunlight, or in a darkening room at twilight, with the shadows of a venetian blind striped across it like a convict’s uniform.

  John Marsden

  Beach, Twilight, Tree

  John Marsden (1998). “Everything I Know About Writing”, p.111, Pan Australia

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• Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.

  George Jackson

  Order, Black, Today

  George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, Chicago Review Press

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• I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Education, Hygiene, Forever

  "The Oak and the Calf". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1980.

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• Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

  Earl Warren

  Liberty, Criminals, Used

  Writing for the court, Spano v. New York 360 U.S. 321, 1959.

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• A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.

  Victor Hugo

  Angel, Men, Evil

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3429, Delphi Classics

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• When the police arrived and found no lion, no broken wall, and no convicts, and the Head behaving like a lunatic, there was an inquiry into the whole thing. And in the inquiry all sorts of things about Experiment House came out, and about ten people got expelled. After that, the Head's friends saw that the Head was no use as a Head, so they got her made an Inspector to interfere with other Heads. And when they found she wasn't much good even at that, they got her into Parliament where she lived happily ever after.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wall, People, Broken

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• Listen to me, convict. I have not traveled all this way to listen to your war stories. So shut your trap before I shut it for you. Commander Julius Root

  Eoin Colfer

  War, Roots, Stories

  Eoin Colfer (2003). “Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident - Book #2”, Miramax

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• Aren’t you afraid they’ll arrest you? (Shahara) I wasn’t a convict, Dagan. I was an illegally purchased slave. My owner has no legal claim on me. And I’m no longer a kid learning my powers. I’m a full-grown man with an ax I want to bury in the forehead of anyone dumb enough to come at me. I defy the bastards to try something now. (Nero)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kids, Men, Dumb

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• Maybe my values are outdated, but I come from an old school of thought. I think that men ought to treat women like something other than just shorter, weaker men with breasts. Try and convict me if I’m a bad person for thinking so. I enjoy treating a woman like a lady, opening doors for her, paying for shared meals, giving flowers–all that sort of thing.

  Jim Butcher

  Flower, School, Men

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• Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends with him, for even there one may live and love and suffer. One may thaw and revive a frozen heart in that convict, one may wait upon him for years, and at last bring up from the dark depths a lofty soul, a feeling, suffering creature; one may bring forth an angel, create a hero! There are so many of them, hundreds of them, and we are all to blame for them. [...] If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hero, Heart, Angel

  "The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1879 - 1880.

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• But all at once I realized that it was not my success God had used to enable me to help those in this prison, or in hundreds of others just like it. My life of success was not what made this morning so glorious -- all my achievements meant nothing in God's economy. "No, the real legacy of my life was my biggest failure -- that I was an ex-convict. My greatest humiliation -- being sent to prison -- was the beginning of God's greatest use of my life; He chose the one thing in which I could not glory for His glory.

  Charles Colson

  Morning, Real, Achievement

  Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.24, Zondervan

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• To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.

  Simone Weil

  Faith In God, Injustice, Victim

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.144, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love.

  Billy Graham

  Jobs, Judging, Spirit

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• Regarding Her Majesty, Queen Levana, has she or any of the Lunar court commented on the escape of the convict?" Kai's jaw tensed. "Oh, she's had a thing or two to say about it.

  Marissa Meyer

  Queens, Two, Majesty

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• It is a horrible idea that there is somebody who owns us, who makes us, who supervises us - waking and sleeping - who knows our thoughts, who can convict us of thought crime, thought crime, just for what we think, who can judge us while we sleep for things that might occur to us in our dreams, who can create us sick, as apparently we are - and then order us, on pain of eternal torture to be well again.
  To demand this, to wish this to be true is to wish to live as an abject slave.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Dream, Pain, Sleep

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• Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.

  Tertullian

  Beauty, Eye, Carpe Diem

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• No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

  Anton Chekhov

  Years, People, Lapses

  "A Journey to Sakhalin". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1895.

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