Prisons Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons.

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

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

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.

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 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.

After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.

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.

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

I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons.

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

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

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?

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

My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road.

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty.

What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.

Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline, because we had 90 days to get these prisons operational and transfer responsibility back to the Iraqis.

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.

All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.

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