Prison Quotes - Page 15

• Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a room with doors open and one with doors locked. The first might be a home, but the second could only be a prison.

  Gloria Steinem

  Home, Doors, Different

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.342, Open Road Media

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• Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round about 1894. With their jangling keys, nasty suits, revolting beards, moustaches and tinted spectacles, estate agents roam the land causing perturbation and despair. If you try and kill them, you're put in prison: if you try and talk to them, you vomit. There's only one thing worse than an estate agent but at least that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed. Estate agents. Love them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

  Stephen Fry

  Home, Keys, Land

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• A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

  Neal Shusterman

  Pedestal, Insidious

  Neal Shusterman (2014). “UnSouled”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience.

  Aldous Huxley

  Believe, Government, Hypnosis

  Letter to George Orwell. "Letters of Aldous Huxley". Book edited by Grover Smith, 1969.

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• Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Competition, Paradise, Socialist

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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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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• In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast stretches yet to be covered before the prison becomes, if it ever does, an institution for the reclamation and rehabilitation of erring and unfortunate men and women.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Men, Progress Of Society, Doe

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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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• 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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• All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.

  Edna O'Brien

  Self, Cells, People

  Edna O'Brien (1978). “Seven novels and other short stories”, HarperCollins

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• I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn't even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons - I just had to be willing to make the phone calls.

  Lisa Gardner

  Unique, Phones, Suspense

  "Cosmo's Book Club: Meet Your Next Must-Read". Interview with Gabrielle Frank, www.cosmopolitan.com. March 9, 2010.

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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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• 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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• 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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• We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Political, Exile, Internals

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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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• I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support.

  Janis Karpinski

  Running, Military, Mps

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• 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.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Father, Party, Years

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• In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!

  Joel McHale

  Makeup, Juice, Use

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

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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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• I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

  Kamala Harris

  Believe, Criminals, Serious

  "San Francisco D.A. Kamala Harris Talks To Kimberly Marteau About Her New Book Smart On Crime". Interview with Kimberly Marteau Emerson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Arrivals, Artist

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• I am aware of what you're talking about with FEMA camps. What is particularly disturbing about that is they are going to be on former military bases. A ton of people have expressed their concerns that what they're building are prison camps.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Military, Talking

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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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