Prisons Quotes
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
— A.R. Ammons
I know prisons from the inside.
— Jose Mujica
Obstacles are opportunities turned upside down ... or prisons self-imposed.
— Chriscinthia Blount
Titles are prisons of human potential
— Natasha Tsakos
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
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
— Cyril Connolly
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
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[We need] to nurture the entrepreneurial spirit and the tremendous untapped potential in our prisons.
— Jeff Smith
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{...]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
I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
— Roberto Bolano
We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports.
— Bruce Schneier
one was present, interacting in any affirmative way with the people who filled those prisons.
— Piper Kerman
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
— George Bernard Shaw
Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build
— Talib Kweli
I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.
— Jack Layton
We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.
— Kinky Friedman
This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are.
— Philip Davies
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
— Michel Foucault
Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.
— John Grisham
Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.
— Pyotr Kropotkin
It is far cheaper to build schoolhouses than prisons, and it is much better to have scholars than convicts.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
Not all prisons have bars
— Amanda Hocking
Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world.
— Paul Watson
As a prosecutor, I've been in prisons. I've had the opportunity to see what they're like in America.
— Tom Rooney
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
— Barbara Deming
Build the prisons and they will commit the crimes.
— Brian Spellman
I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.
— Natalie Merchant
The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept.
— Jessica Mitford
Better to build orphanages than prisons.
— James Cook
Only education can empty the workhouses and prisons, the slums and rookeries.
— Jennifer Donnelly
Most prisons have wide gates!
— Katherine Cecil Thurston
Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.
— Cammie McGovern
I had heard of offices feeling like prisons, but in this case our prison felt, rather anticlimactically, like an office.
— William Ritter
Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.
— Alberto Manguel
Aren't we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?
— Ruthy Alon
Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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
Believe me, England's prisons are full of splendid people.
— Paul Theroux
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
There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons.
— Benjamin Franklin
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
— Judge Mills Lane
Our prisons are packed. Our streets are filled with drugs. Who's winning the war? We've lost our minds.
— John Grisham
The years go by too quickly to waste them in silent prisons of hate.
— Karen Kingsbury
All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.
— Conrad Black
Nobody is free ... Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons.
— Ted Simon
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
Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
— Richard Francis Burton
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
A society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons.
— Rick Steves
There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.
— Gerald Stern
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
— Virginia Woolf
...that special despondent and accursed look that only our hospitals and prisons have.
— Anton Chekhov
There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.
— William Shakespeare
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
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
The palaces faith builds are greater than the prisons fear creates.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.
— Tupac Shakur
Scientists are the enemies of tradition , and tradition own all the prisons. - Victor Vigny
— Eoin Colfer
Make not your thoughts your prisons.
— William Shakespeare
Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up.
— Sam Branson
The world of womens' prisons is indeed a microcosm.
— Susanna Moore
