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When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons. — Henry David Thoreau

My writing is like those little carved baskets made in prisons ... — Leo Tolstoy

No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons. — Jerry Weller

If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I know prisons from the inside. — Jose Mujica

Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons. — Richard Wright

already imprisoned inside themselves. Prisons of hatred and self-contempt he recognised all too well. — Jo Nesbo

Obstacles are opportunities turned upside down ... or prisons self-imposed. — Chriscinthia Blount

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. — Horace Mann

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them. — Vladimir Putin

I tell ya, I know the best way to get girls. I hang out at women's prisons, and wait for parolees. — Rodney Dangerfield

Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons? — Fran Lebowitz

Fences can be prisons, in a way. They're necessary for those incapable of learning restraint, but they diminish life. — Tamera Alexander

The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons. — Jimmy Carter

Prisons are built to break men, and when men are broken society has consummated its revenge — Jan Valtin

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children. — John A. Powell

{...]I began to feel tears of frustration build up in my eyes, yearning to free themselves from their glandular prisons. — Andrea Bouchaud

Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ? — Michel Foucault

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair. — Clarence Darrow

We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports. — Bruce Schneier

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino. — Lisa Bonet

one was present, interacting in any affirmative way with the people who filled those prisons. — Piper Kerman

About eighty percent of the women in U.S. prisons have children, — Piper Kerman

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business. — Eduardo Galeano

Maybe I could survive in one of those resort prisons where they house white-collar criminals. I've always wanted to get better at tennis. — Chuck Klosterman

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

I'm an artist and a journalist. I travel around the world very often for 'Vice Magazine,' and I draw and I write about prisons, about conflict zones. — Molly Crabapple

There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions. — William Shakespeare

It is. And yet so few really are free. Nearly all people live in prisons of their own making, regardless of their faith, creed, sex or race. — Ted Dekker

Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. — Richard Francis Burton

...that special despondent and accursed look that only our hospitals and prisons have. — Anton Chekhov

Many of us are in are in our own prisons that aren't made of iron bars. — Hill Harper

The world of womens' prisons is indeed a microcosm. — Susanna Moore

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life. — Adam Gopnik

This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are. — Philip Davies

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

I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous. — Natalie Merchant

building prisons is our number one social program for young men — Gavin De Becker

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons. — Angela Davis

We need to fight for free education and defund the prisons — Chris Crass

Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason. — Eric Holder

God uses prisons to train people for future roles of leadership or martyrdom. — Charles Colson

If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs. — Ronnie Van Zant

Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are paying for it all. — Dan Benishek

America's prisons have become warehouses for the mentally ill. — Bryan Stevenson

Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities. — Jamie Fellner

Believe me, England's prisons are full of splendid people. — Paul Theroux

Nobody is free ... Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons. — Ted Simon

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation. — Conrad Black

Only prisoners were ever granted easy passage into a prison. — Scott Lynch

The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say. — Criss Jami

The years go by too quickly to waste them in silent prisons of hate. — Karen Kingsbury

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured. — Mahatma Gandhi

Our prisons are packed. Our streets are filled with drugs. Who's winning the war? We've lost our minds. — John Grisham

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously. — Judge Mills Lane

There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons. — Benjamin Franklin

First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons. — Angela Davis

Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held. — Edward McKendree Bounds

Somehow, we each create our own prisons, one for which only we, hold the key. — Sue J. Daniels

We're building prisons all over the world and calling them luxury condos. — J.G. Ballard

If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up. — Mike Singletary

If every crime victim had to have perfect judgment, we could empty our prisons. — Claire McCaskill

The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth — Mumia Abu-Jamal

Not every one of us are born or made free of our own prisons to the extent of ourselves. — M.F. Moonzajer

Puffballs of vanity when they're not being absurdly violent; wretchedly unhappy in their mental prisons and too stubborn to open the door and escape. — Deepak Chopra

If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices. — Jean Vanier

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up. — Sam Branson

Make not your thoughts your prisons. — William Shakespeare

Scientists are the enemies of tradition , and tradition own all the prisons. - Victor Vigny — Eoin Colfer