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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.)

  • That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.

    Lying   Men   Soul  
    'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Ecstasy'
  • 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.

    Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.112
  • Without the instruments and accumulated knowledge of the natural sciences... humans are trapped in a cognitive prison. They are like intelligent fish born in a deep shallowed pool. Wondering and restless, longing to reach out, they think about the world outside. They invent ingenious speculations and myths about the origin of the confining waters, of the sun and the sky and the stars above , and the meaning of their own existence. But they are wrong, always wrong because the world is too remote from ordinary experience to be merely imagined.

  • It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it. The individual feels the nothingness of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in Nature and in the world of though. He looks upon individual existence as a sort of prison and wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole.

    Order   Feelings   Desire  
  • In return for financial support will advocate admission of Jews to England; This however impossible while Charles living. Charles cannot be executed without trial on adequate grounds for which do not presently exist. Therefore advise that Charles be assassinated, but will have nothing to do with arrangements for procuring an assassin, though willing to help in his escape. [King Charles I was in prison at the time].

    Kings   Support   Trials  
  • Why, when God's world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places?

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

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those.

  • I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

  • Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

    Tree   Wicked   Prison  
  • Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.

  • Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would become pessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic.

  • Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.

    Wall   Angel   Iron  
  • Best way then is to be waiting for them to bring Halt and the others out of that prison,” he said, almost to himself. “There’s only one reason I can think of that they might do that,” Umar said. “That’s if they are going to execute them.” Will lookd at him for several seconds before speaking. “Well, that’s a big comfort.

  • It was in prison that we found the hope of salvation for the Communists. It was there that we developed a sense of responsibility toward them. It was in being tortured by them that we learned to love them.

    Richard Wurmbrand (2017). “Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.58, David C Cook
  • The sole relief I am asking for is to be released from military prison after serving six years of confinement as a person who did not intend to harm the interests of the United States or harm any service members.

    Military   Years   Six  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament

    Stars   Wall   Men  
  • The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

    Cells   Liberty   Prison  
  • There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

    Men   Desire   Bars  
    Upton Sinclair (2015). “The Jungle: A Novel”, p.303, Open Road Media
  • The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

    Art   Kind   Prison  
  • Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

    Law   Religion   Stones  
    William Blake, “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”
  • Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On greater pirates we bestow. To steal a flower we call mean. To rob a field is chivalry; Who kills the body he must die, Who kills the spirit he goes free.

    Respect   Flower   Mean  
  • Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison; they turn to poetry.

    People   Church   Prison  
    Source: www.utne.com
  • The reason I’m not more political is because I have music. And from a young age, I needed it. After prison, my father came to America, joined the Army, fought in Vietnam - and was exposed to Agent Orange. He died a slow, horrible death. Music was my escape.

    Father   Army   America  
    "Gloria Estefan: 'Like Coming Home, But Not to the Old Cuba'". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2007.
  • The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • To arrive is to be in prison.

    Prison  
  • A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

    Hands   Prison   Goods  
    Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.164, Rowman & Littlefield
  • My personal story is that my father was a heroin addict and a heroin dealer and has been in and out of prison my entire life, he's been arrested sixty times. I also have an older brother addicted to crack cocaine who's been in and out of prison so it was really important for me to tell a story that shows the humanity and the journey of a man getting of our prison and trying to re-acclimate into society. It's apart of our community that we have stereotypes and ideas about but we don't actually know much about it, unless we know someone personally.

    Source: lasentinel.net
  • People charged with drug offenses, though, are typically poor people of color. They are routinely charged with felonies and sent to prison.

    Color   People   Drug  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
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