Prison Quotes - Page 24

• Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Angel, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1534, Delphi Classics

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• We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the Soviet Union.

  Rose Bird

  Country, California, People

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• It would serve the Americans right if we emptied the prisons and let the subversives take power. They'd soon show Washington just how much they appreciate good old American values.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Appreciate, Shows, American Values

  "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 465, 1991.

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• A person who does not enter the new [Rastakhiz] party is either an individual who belongs to an illegal organization, or is related to the outlaw Tudeh Party, or in other words is a traitor. Such an individual belongs in an Iranian prison, or if he desires, he can leave the country tomorrow, because he is not an Iranian, he has no nation, and his activities are illegal and punishable according to law.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Country, Party, Organization

  "Majestic Failure: The Fall of the Shah". Book by Marvin Zonis, p. 75, 1991.

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• Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.

  P. D. James

  Childhood, Appeals, One Sentence

  P.D. James (2012). “Innocent Blood”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.

  Anton Chekhov

  Execution, Capital Punishment, Latter

  "The Bet". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1889.

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• Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

  James Ussher

  Shut Up, Conscience

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• Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer.

  P. W. Botha

  Dies, Nelson

  Sunday Times, November 5, 2006.

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• A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name,
  Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame,
  A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb
  Hourly inters poor mortals in its tomb;
  By ev'ry plague and ev'ry ill possess'd,
  Ev'n purgatory itself to thee 's a jest.

  Tom Brown, Jr.

  Names, Shame, Poor

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• If it is right to be legally married, it is right to be legally divorced ... To be deprived of a Divorce is like being shut up in prison because someone attempted to kill you. It is just as honorable to get out of matrimonial trouble legally, as to be freed from any other wrong.

  Mary Edwards Walker

  Divorce, Married, Shut Up

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• Crime is a social problem, and education is the only real deterrent. Look at all of us in prison; we were all truants and dropouts, a failure of the educational system. Look at your truancy problem, and you're looking at your future prisoners. Put the money there.

  Wilbert Rideau

  Teacher, Real, Educational

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• Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew,
  In prison pine with bondage and restraint;
  And with remembrance of the greater grief
  To banish the less, I find my chief relief.

  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

  Freedom, Grief, Remembrance

  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (Illustrated)”, p.36, Delphi Classics

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• The years of imprisonment hardened me ... Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your emotions wouldn't be blunted as they have been in my case. When it happens every day of your life, when that pain becomes a way of life ... there is no longer anything I can fear. There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known.

  Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

  Fear, Pain, Blow

  "Winnie Madikizela-Mandela dies aged 81" by Jason Burke, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2018.

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• President Obama became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison yesterday. Obama said it was a good chance to talk about prison reform, and to catch up with so many former congressmen.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Yesterday, President, Reform

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• Former U.S. House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, has been sentenced to three years in prison. One year for money laundering and two more for his performance on 'Dancing with the Stars.'

  Jay Leno

  Stars, Majority Leader, Years

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• Now I realize that it isn't the miracle that creates the believer. Instead, we are all believers. We believe that the illusion of the material world is completely real. That belief is our only prison. It prevents us from making the journey into the unknown.

  Deepak Chopra

  Real, Believe, Journey

  Deepak Chopra (2008). “How To Know God”, p.215, Random House

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• Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms of overt or covert terrorism? Of course, the answer is an unambiguous YES.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Running, Children, School

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• The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. Caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes and driven by the human ego, both warden and prisoner attempt meagerly to compete with God. All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Dark, Thinking, Persistence

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• ... an institution cannot be run progressively on a basis of fear.

  Mary B. Harris

  Running, Fear, Institutions

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• ... imprisonment itself, entailing loss of liberty, loss of citizenship, separation from family and loved ones, is punishment enough for most individuals, no matter how favorable the circumstances under which the time is passed.

  Mary B. Harris

  Loss, Punishment, Liberty

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• When I closed THE GRAPES OF WRATH, I was a different man. It enriched my powers of thinking and discipline, and my relationships. I left prison more informed than when I went in. And the more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Thinking, Wrath

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• Keeping them behind bars does little to reduce crime, but it does a lot to tear apart families, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

  Hillary Clinton

  Health, Jail, Tears

  "Hillary Clinton: America must confront 'hard truths about race and justice'", www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2015.

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• Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.

  Will Rogers

  Nuisance, Parades, Should

  Will Rogers, Steven K. Gragert, Judy G. Buckholz, Oklahoma State University, Will Rogers Memorial Commission (1974). “The Writings of Will Rogers”

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• If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning to regard our plight or predicament in this society as one of a prison inmate.

  Malcolm X

  America, People, Black

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• Empty your birdcage, empty your aquarium! To love is to give freedom; to love is to refuse the prisons!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Freedom, Aquariums

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