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Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout. — Andy Rooney

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

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

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

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

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. — John Ruskin

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

Titles are prisons of human potential — Natasha Tsakos

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

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

[We need] to nurture the entrepreneurial spirit and the tremendous untapped potential in our prisons. — Jeff Smith

{...]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

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

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

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

I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate. — Jack Layton

Some people hate the smell of hospitals. I hate the smell of jails and prisons, all the same: stale cigarette smoke, Pine-Sol, urine, sweat, and dust. — Ann Rule

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

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

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout. — Tom Hayden

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people. — Michel Foucault

Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them. — John Grisham

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types. — John Grisham

I've spent a lot of time in prisons, first doing legal work and later, teaching. — Peter Orner

Building prisons to fight crime is like building cemeteries to fight disease. — Jack Levin

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

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

Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God. — Ian Fleming

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

Did prisons have air-conditioning? Was it just primary schools that missed out? — Liane Moriarty

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons. — Alberto Manguel

Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings ... — Angela Davis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons. — Rick Steves

We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prisons: we need to take this online as well. — Maajid Nawaz

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

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

...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

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

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

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

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

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

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