Prison Quotes - Page 12

• 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.

  Patrick Macnee

  Talking, Years, House

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• Some go to prison for stealing, and others for believing that a better system can be provided and maintained than one that makes it necessary for a man to steal in order to live.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Believe, Men, Order

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• Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.

  Tupac Shakur

  Inspirational, Greed, Generations

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• The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Wall, Character, Gun

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• If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in cities, towns, and hamlets, ofttimes by men who graduated with an education and equipment for just that sort of retributive service from some penal institution.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Men, Cities, People

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• Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heart, Punishment, Vices

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.189

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• When it comes to locations, I'm one of those crazy authors who has to see it, touch it, taste it, before I trust myself to recreate it for my readers. Having said that, visiting a locked-down pediatric psych ward was the most intimidating research I've ever done - and I've visited maximum security prisons, shooting galleries, bone collections, etc.

  Lisa Gardner

  Crazy, Psych, Trust Myself

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• They let dangerous men out of prison now, yes sir, I'm afraid it's so. Cause they're over crowded and it was only his fifth offense.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Men, Dangerous Man, Politics

  Song: Mr. Lincoln

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

  Thomas Tusser

  Agriculture, Debt, Good Husband

  Thomas Tusser (1848). “Some of the Five hundred points of good husbandry, newly corrected and ed. by H.M.W. [2 issues].”, p.114

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• 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.

  Amaury Nolasco

  Believe, May, Sometimes

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

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• 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.

  Ted Nelson

  Wall, Spring, Ideas

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• 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.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Mother, Years, Giving

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• 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].

  Oliver Cromwell

  Kings, Support, Trials

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• 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.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  People, Car, Atrocities

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• One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every way: economically, socially, as well as at the hands of the police -- because if we went out on the street to play baseball, for example, the police would come and beat us up and put us in prison.

  Daniel Ortega

  Baseball, Play, Hands

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• 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.

  Jamie Bell

  Morning, Next, Might

  "Jamie Bell's History Lesson"". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 9, 2014.

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• 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.

  George Papandreou

  Country, Father, Military

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• The general public knows practically nothing about the prison and appears to be little concerned about how it is managed and how prisoners are treated.

  Eugene V. Debs

  People, Littles, Concerned

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• Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times!

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Soup

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• Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.

  Johnny Cash

  Wall, Order, Law

  Song: Greystone Chapel, Album: At Folsom Prison

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• Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.

  Peter Benenson

  Government, World, Opinion

  The Observer, May 28, 1961.

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• Obesity is a prison; in the US we spend more to treat type 2 diabetes each year than is spent on education.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Type 2 Diabetes, Years, Obesity

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• Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of the acceptable into the nonacceptable, from respectability into the criminal community of the monster who was an enemy to the people.

  Marguerite Young

  Long, People, Community

  Marguerite Young (1999). “Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs”, Knopf

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• The sick man must follow his illness to the place where it is treated... He is set aside in one of the technical and secret zones (hospitals, prisons, refuse dumps) which relieve the living of everything that might hinder the chain of production and consumption, and which repair and select what can be sent back up to the surface of progress.

  Michel de Certeau

  Men, Sick, Secret

  "Arts de Faire".

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• That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.

  John Donne

  Lying, Men, Soul

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Ecstasy'

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