Prison Quotes - Page 39

• The question is not whether there is intelligent life out there, the question is, whether there is intelligent life down here. As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.

  Jacque Fresco

  War, Intelligent, Civilization

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• All my friends and family are either in prison or don't make enough money. I don't know what the president really does. I haven't been able to experience that kind of shift yet.

  Vince Staples

  Family And Friends, President, Doe

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I had many dolls. And you know how I played with them? By performing insurrections, assemblies, scenes of arrest. My dolls were almost never babies to be nursed but men and women who attacked barracks and ended up in prison.

  Indira Gandhi

  Baby, Men, Dolls

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• It is grievous to be caught.

  Horace

  Caught

  "Satires". Book I. 2. 134,

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• Hillary Clinton continues to say Donald Trump's unacceptable, he doesn't have the character to be president. He is saying - continues saying she needs to be in prison.

  David Brooks

  Character, President, Needs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least.

  Jim Goad

  Regret, Crime, Feels

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran? But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.

  Akbar Ganji

  Space, Iran, Years

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.

  Akbar Ganji

  Years, Firsts, Six

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.

  Truman Capote

  Guitar, Weapons, Used

  Source: capote.wordpress.com

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• Under what rubric of common sense would you release violent criminals who are illegal back onto the streets in America? Why would you not deport them? I mean, you have them. It's not like you have to go to the shadows and find these people. They are in your jail cell. They're in your prison cell.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Cells, America

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• I hate liver, but I could imagine eating some with a little bit of ketchup. Like, a lot of ketchup. I could survive in a Turkish prison, probably.

  Rich Fulcher

  Hate, Littles, Imagine

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The man who accused Richard Simmons of slapping him in an airport has dropped the assault charge. Dropped it! Upon hearing the news, Simmons sadly responded, "You mean I'm not going to prison?"

  Dennis Miller

  Mean, Men, Airports

  "Daily Ror-shocked: Is CNBC's Dennis Miller funny?" by Jeremy Cluchey, www.mediamatters.org. July 07, 2004.

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• I could survive in a Turkish prison, probably.

  Rich Fulcher

  Turkish

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Oh, the inmates and the prisoners I found they were my kind And it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind But the jails they were too crowded Institutions overflowed So they turned me loose to walk upon Life's hurried tangled road

  Bob Dylan

  Jail, Tangled, Mind

  Song: Ballad of Donald White

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• The way people are treated in them [prisons] is very similar to gulags.

  Jerry Brown

  People, Way, Gulags

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• African-American men are more likely to be killed in police incidents, stopped and searched, and sentenced to longer prison terms than white men convicted of similar crimes. Behind these statistics are heart-wrenching stories of lives cut short and families ripped apart.

  Hillary Clinton

  Heart, Cutting, Men

  "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Discuss Student Debt, Immigration, and More". Interview with Judith Ohikuare, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 11, 2016.

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• That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

  Jack Abbott

  Hurt, It Hurts, Take Me

  Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

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• The fact that's why the prisons and stock in private prisons rose the very day after the election results [for Donald Trump] were announced. The fact that progress that was made for people of color, for women, for LGBTQ people, are all at risk.

  Ava DuVernay

  Color, Rose, People

  Source: deadline.com

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• The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt.

  Plato

  Doors, Soul, Lust

  Plato, Richard Dacre Archer-Hind (1973). “The Phaedo of Plato”, Ayer Co Pub

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• I feel like it had an impact, in that it started the attention that has been paid to what was happening. It started to get us into this whole conversation about prison reform, the whole bipartisan dialogue that's been happening over the past five, six years about this, where you have a Van Jones and a Newt Gingrich, and you have the Rick Perrys and so forth getting up and talking about the need to reform.

  Ava DuVernay

  Past, Impact, Talking

  Source: deadline.com

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• Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison; they turn to poetry.

  Robert Bly

  People, Church, Longing

  Source: www.utne.com

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• Do you know that Yahya Khan's first victim was not to have been Mujib [ Rahman] but myself? Many people in my party were in prison, and at the end of 1970, November 5, 1970, to be exact, he had said to Mujib, "Should I arrest Bhutto or not?" Look, the only reason why he reversed his schedule was that in West Pakistan he couldn't control the situation as in East Pakistan. Besides Mujib has never been intelligent - he let himself be backed into a corner.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Party, Intelligent, People

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• That Mujib [Rahiman] had been arrested I found out at eight in the morning, when I left. How did I take it? I was glad he was alive and I thought they might have maltreated him a little. Then I thought that his arrest might help to reach a compromise. They wouldn't keep him in prison more than a month or two, and in the meantime we'd be able to bring back law and order.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Morning, Two, Eight

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• We went down [Folsom Prison] and there's a rodeo at all these shows that the prisoners have there. And in between the rodeo things, they asked me to set up and do two or three songs. So that was what I did. I did "Folsom Prison Blues," which they thought was their song - you know? - and "I Walk The Line," "Hey Porter," "Cry, Cry, Cry." And then the word got around on the grapevine that Johnny Cash is all right and that you ought to see him.

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Two, Hey

  Source: wrvo.org

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• I kept talking to my producers at Columbia about recording one of those [prison] shows. So we went into Folsom on February 11, 1968, and recorded a show live.

  Johnny Cash

  Talking, February, Columbia

  Source: wrvo.org

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