Prisons Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.