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Tag Name "Prison" (1105)

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This thing of darkness I acknowlege mine. There is nothing more confining than the prison we don't know we are in.
William Shakespeare
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The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.
Akbar Ganji
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I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran? But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
Akbar Ganji
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Scapegoating will go on forever. We need someone to blame - illegal immigrants, single moms, people in prison. We need someone to victimize.
Winona Ryder
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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston Churchill
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
Adlai Stevenson I
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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
William Blake
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
Ramsey Clark
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
Adam Gopnik
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Not being appreciated for 40 years or something ... It feels like I was accused of something that I didn't do, which was breaking up the Beatles. That was like being somebody who is in prison without having done anything wrong.
Yoko Ono
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Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.
Adam Ant
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The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.
George W. Bush
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Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.
Abraham Polonsky
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To say I accept in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.
George Orwell
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Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.
Abraham Lincoln
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The severest justice may not always be the best policy
Abraham Lincoln
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
Abraham Cowley
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Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?
Zadie Smith
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
A. R. Ammons
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... an institution cannot be run progressively on a basis of fear.
Mary B. Harris
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The palace we built has become a prison.
2D
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I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.
Suge Knight
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This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are.
Philip Davies
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