Prisons Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.