Prison Quotes - Page 29

• It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed me a five gallon bucket of water. I drank and drank. The only reason I am here and not in prison is because of that woman. I was a loser, but she showed me the power of reading.

  Gary Paulsen

  Reading, Water, Dying

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• The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind.

  Bhagat Singh

  Religious, Dirty, Alliances

  Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”

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• On one hand, prostitutes don't struggle because it's simply their life. In Mexico and elsewhere, once they get out of these places [brothels] they have a pretty square life. In Bangladesh it's different because they live in the brothel, it's sort of a prison, but still there are two sides. When they think of their religion and their upbringing, they can be very moralistic. They're moralistic about giving blow jobs. On the other hand, they have an everyday life where there's no room for shame.

  Michael Glawogger

  Jobs, Struggle, Blow

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• Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out.

  Terry McMillan

  People, Black, Knows

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In Russia, we have a long tradition of compassion for people who have been put into labor camps or prison.

  Lyudmila Alexeyeva

  Compassion, Russia, Long

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I won't go back on my decision. I'm not afraid of prison, but there are even worse dangers.

  Bidzina Ivanishvili

  Decision, Danger, Not Afraid

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad for both sides. But I don't think the forces are there (that could carry out) an uprising against the leadership. The people that could initiate it are in Israeli prisons. And what could they hope to achieve? In the end, they're too weak to end the Israeli occupation.

  Tom Segev

  Mistake, Thinking, Uprising

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Our prison in Georgia is a very different place from this prison here in Berlin. The conditions there are inhuman.

  Irakli Okruashvili

  Different, Georgia, Berlin

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Prison Notebooks gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.

  Okky Madasari

  Notebook, People, Giving

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• Republican candidate Ben Carson told reporters he thinks American prisons might be too comfortable. As opposed to Mexican prisons that have personal showers with $5 million escape tunnels.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Thinking, Tunnels, Mexican

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• For our past can be a prison we are locked in permanently, or it can be the key to our freedom if we glean the lessons from it and deal with it directly.

  Kevin Powell

  Past, Keys, Lessons

  "An Open Letter to Chris Brown" by Kevin Powell, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2011.

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• Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.

  Yael Stone

  Character, People, Interesting

  "Meet the Australian Actress Who Does the Most Amazing Accent on Television". Interview with Laura Bennett, newrepublic.com. August 23, 2013.

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• Genre is a minimum security prison.

  David Shields

  Genre Is, Minimum, Security

  Interview with Sean Carman, therumpus.net. March 7, 2013.

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• Fear is the strongest prison and courage is the only way out!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Way, Strongest

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• I certainly want to be involved in politics and help shape the transition. I am in contact with regime critics who had to leave for the West. One of them is Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former businessman, who had to endure 10 years in a prison camp.

  Garry Kasparov

  Years, Want, West

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• Why the jailer does not leave open his prison doors,--why the judge does not dismiss his case,--why the preacher does not dismisshis congregation! It is because they do not obey the hint God gives them, nor accept the pardon which he freely offers to all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Doors, Law, Giving

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• No mandatory prison term for employers who hire illegals.

  Mitt Romney

  Employers, Term

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• There are areas of official life in the United States that are similar to Russia. For example: disbursement of protest, and the way American prisons are run, which is pretty tough.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Running, Russia, Way

  "Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina". Interview with Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. April 10, 2014.

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• If people could see the inside of my brain, I would be in prison.

  Camille Paglia

  People, Brain, Would Be

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.247, Vintage

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• Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered on my arrival by the warder at the gate, who had to take particulars about me. He asked my religion, and I replied 'agnostic.' He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: 'Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.' This remark kept me cheerful for about a week.

  Bertrand Russell

  God, Punishment, Religion

  Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.257, Psychology Press

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• When policemen go to prison in England, they have as bad a time as a pedophile.

  Martin Amis

  England, Policemen

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• When we're rational about rule-breaking we set a limit. You don't get 30 years in prison for a traffic ticket. But sometimes you sentence yourself to months or years of emotional pain over minor offenses.

  David D. Burns

  Pain, Emotional, Years

  Source: time.com

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• In exchange for ten years of being on top, I'm gonna end up in prison or I'm gonna end up dead, and there's something fascinating about that.

  Brian Helgeland

  Years, Ends, Fascinating

  Source: collider.com

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• AQAL is a map of samsara, a map of the prison, but if you gonna make a prison brake,you need a good map. (laughter)

  Ken Wilber

  Laughter, Needs, Maps

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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.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Dark, Persistence, Humanity

  Buckminster Fuller (1992). “Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity”, p.1, The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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