Prisons Quotes

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

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

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons.

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

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.

You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli forces, and everything stops in these cities. This is the result of Oslo.

We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

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

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

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

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

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

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

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

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

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

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.

I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.