Prison Quotes - Page 31

• We don't claim to have perfect morals, but at least we have a huge area of things that, while legal, are beneath us. We won't do them. Currently, there's a culture in Americathat says that anything that won't send you to prison is OK.

  Charlie Munger

  Perfect, Culture, Moral

  Charlie Munger's comments on Berkshire Hathaway at the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 1, 2004.

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• If we have a bitcoin universe, you don't get to print money for war. You don't get to have money for a prison/industrial complex. You don't get money for a war on drugs. You have to ask the people.

  Stefan Molyneux

  War, People, Drug

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• In a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. Never let fear prevent you from doing right.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Real, Rights, Order

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• Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Claims, Policy

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• Form is burden. Sometimes being part of the system enslaves the mind and greatly limits the imagination by enslaving it to form. Form is a burden to the mind that sees no limits. Form is a prison for the soul who sees possibilities outside the lines and wishes to test them.

  Suzy Kassem

  Imagination, Soul, Mind

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• As I have pointed out time and again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to send little kids to school than it is to let them grow up into young thugs who have to be sent to prison, not to mention the savings in the wear and tear on the nerves, property, and safety of the rest of the citizenry.

  Molly Ivins

  Growing Up, School, Kids

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• I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Teenage, Pregnancy, Boys

  "School as Wonder, or Way Out" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, www.nytimes.com. July 10, 2012.

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• People behave badly and people are in prison and people are on death row, and there are no excuses for everybody's behavior, but most people are coming from abuse.

  Dylan McDermott

  People, Abuse, No Excuses

  Source: collider.com

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• The British Union of Fascists, Oswald Mosley`s group, the black shirts, they were banned in Britain in 1940. And Max Mosley`s dad, Sir Oswald Mosley, ended up spending three years in World War II, 1940 to 1943, interned in the U.K. as basically an enemy of the state. He spent that time in prison, as did Max Mosley`s mother.

  Rachel Maddow

  Mother, Dad, War

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• The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.

  Ryan Ross

  Fortune, Fortune Teller, Mediums

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• At six o'clock we cleaned our cells,
  At seven all was still,
  But the sough and swing of a mighty wing
  The prison seemed to fill,
  For the Lord of Death with icy breath
  Had entered in to kill.

  Oscar Wilde

  Swings, Cells, Icy

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.179, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Criminals, Needs, Protect

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• The fastest growing occupation in the private sector is security guards. The fastest growing occupation in the public sector is prison guards. (1992)

  Robert Reich

  Prison Guards, Security Guards, Growing

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• When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Criminals, Honorable

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• I wrestled and played football in high school and in my last year, I started as a wrestler and actually had a fairly good record. But I hated to lose. I always gave it everything I had which, unfortunately, was not as much as I'd hoped for. But keep in mind, I feel like I got the most out of my ability. One moment that was special above all the rest was winning my last bout at the Naval Academy to finish the entire summer undefeated. That was thrilling, but what's more, it helped me in prison because the first time I got knocked around by the Vietnamese, it did not come as a total shock.

  John McCain

  Summer, Football, School

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• The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business.

  Henry Rollins

  Military, Kids, Criminals

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• If people are being upstanding citizens of the Republic, then you have to widen the net to incarcerate them. This explains why America's prisons are full of nonviolent offenders - a perfect example of American exceptionalism.

  Henry Rollins

  America, People, Perfect

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• The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Were Not Meant To Be, World

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.11, Best Books on

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• Enlightenment is freedom, the thought of enlightenment is prison.
  The truth exists in the moment. If we´re anywhere else, seeking something
  outside of the moment, we´re in prison.

  Stephen Levine

  Enlightenment, Moments, Seeking

  Stephen Levine (2010). “A Gradual Awakening”, p.77, Anchor

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• They [Federalist European Politicians] divide their time between court room, prison and debating chamber - giving a whole new meaning to the term 'conviction politician'.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Giving, Rooms, Politician

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Republicans are always saying we should privatize things like schools, prisons, social security - hey, how about we privatize privacy! Because if the government forbids gay men from tying the knot, what is their alternative? They can`t all marry Liza Minnelli.

  Bill Maher

  School, Gay, Men

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.158, Rodale

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• Wanderlust is not unheard of in our kind; it comes upon us now and then. When you can live forever, staying in one place can come to seem a dull prison after many, many years.

  Cassandra Clare

  Years, Forever, Dull

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.)

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Giving, Realization, Vivid

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• If you're drunk please don't drive. If you're on shrooms please don't think Walmart's a prison for bad clothing that needs help escaping.

  Dane Cook

  Thinking, Escaping, Drunk

  Twitter post from Jul 19, 2013

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• You might be a redneck if you consider your license plate personalized because your dad made it in prison.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Dad, Redneck, Might

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