Prison Quotes - Page 23

• The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty straight. We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.

  Wendell Berry

  Running, Long, Mountain

  Wendell Berry's Commencement Address at Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia, Kentucky, May 14, 2005.

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• Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Mind, Vices, Sanctuary

  Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.44, Penguin

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• Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.

  Ovid

  Years, Taught, Crime

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• Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice.

  Immanuel Kant

  Blood, Punishment, Islands

  Immanuel Kant, Mary J. Gregor (1999). “Practical Philosophy”, p.474, Cambridge University Press

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• I only hope those rumors I hear about what goes on in prison are greatly
  exaggerated.

  Homer

  Rumor, Goes On, Exaggerated

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• What makes Bush different from Hitler? He commits crimes in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons. With all these crimes, they still behave like bullying claimants. They get angry once they see an independant nation.

  Ali Khamenei

  Bullying, Different, Abu Ghraib

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• The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Lying, Guilt, Crime

  "Troades". DCCCLXX,

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• There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a right to demand judicial consideration of newly discovered evidence of innocence brought forward after conviction. My concern is that in making life easier for ourselves we not appear to make it harder for the lower federal courts, imposing upon them the burden of regularly analyzing newly-discovered-evidence-of-innocence claims in capital cases (in which event such federal claims, it can confidently be predicted, will become routine and even repetitive).

  Antonin Scalia

  Practice, Justice, Demand

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• Two men looked out from prison bars,
  One saw the mud, the other saw stars.

  Dale Carnegie

  Stars, Men, Two

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.135, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• I’m not for profiling people on the color of their skin or on their religion. But I would take into account where they've been traveling and perhaps you might indirectly have to take into account whether or not they've been going to radical political speeches by religious leaders. It wouldn't be that they are Islamic. But if someone is attending speeches from someone who is promoting the violent overthrow of our government, that’s really an offense that we should be going after. They should be deported or put in prison.

  Rand Paul

  Religious, Islamic, Government

  "Does Rand Paul Really Want to Imprison People for Attending Speeches?". "The Sean Hannity Show", reason.com. June 2, 2011.

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• An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Wall, Women, Intelligent

  "America's Medieval Women". Harper's Magazine, August 1938.

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• Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

  Suge Knight

  Character, People, Judging

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• I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

  Valentino Rossi

  Ferrari, Driving, Fame

  "Ferrari is the ultimate challenge for me" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2005.

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• Unless your freedom turns into a creative realization, you will feel sad. Because you will see that you are free-your chains are broken, and you are no longer in prison; you are standing under the starry night, completely free. But where do you go?

  Rajneesh

  Freedom, Night, Broken

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• Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

  Camille Paglia

  Education, Past, Doors

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.8, Vintage

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• You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build.

  Sean O'Casey

  Wall, Cells, Ideas

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• Seriously, in 2008 we elected a community organizer, state senator, college instructor first term senator over a guy who spent five years in a Vietnamese prison. And now he's lecturing us about how America's gone "soft"? Really?

  Jonah Goldberg

  College, Years, America

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• Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Political, Preparation, Society

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• When sex becomes conscious it is love, it is no longer lust. Love brings freedom, and lust simply creates prisons for you.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Freedom, Lust

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• Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.
  Minds innocent and quiet take that for a hermitage:
  If I have freedom in my love, and in my Soul I am free,
  Angels alone, that soar above, enjoy such liberty.

  Richard Lovelace

  Wall, Angel, Iron

  'To Althea, From Prison'

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• Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner to be released, but householders entertain no desire to be relieved from the ties of family. When a man's passion is aroused nothing prevents him from ruining himself. Even into the jaws of a tiger will he jump. Those who are thus drowned in the filth of passion are called the ignorant. Those who are able to overcome it are saintly Arhats.

  Gautama Buddha

  Passion, Men, Ties

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• I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me to its savage fancies, I was able to escape responsibility, to indulge fully my selfish desire to let my ego flourish unfettered, not obliged to anyone. But this wasn't freedom. It was a prison-a cell separating me from those who cared for me and for whom I might have cared.

  Eric G. Wilson

  Depression, Selfish, Responsibility

  Eric G. Wilson (2012). “Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why We Can't Look Away”, p.128, Sarah Crichton Books

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• I remember my emotions the day we watched Nelson Mandela walk out of prison Writing & literature in South Africa during the anti-apartheid years, became a 'cultural weapon.' You had to use it to fight apartheid & some of us resisted that in the end, you recognize that you are facing a government that has no scruples about using culture & art to oppress you.

  Achmat Dangor

  Art, Writing, Fighting

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• When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Why Not, Graves, Edges

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• I love to eat. That's why I got so fat; I love to eat. If I don't walk away from a meal hurting, I didn't do it right. If I don't walk away from Thanksgiving dinner feeling like I've been turkey-f**ked in a gingerbread prison, I didn't do it right.

  Greg Behrendt

  Hurt, Funny Thanksgiving, Turkeys

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