Prisons Quotes

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.

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.

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.

No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?