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Tag Name "Prison" (1105)

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People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat.
Antony Starr
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There are worse prisons than words.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.
Gregory David Roberts
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The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.
Tony Blair
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Not many academics do labor education. Why not? The need is great. This is where the youth are so important. If faculty were as engaged as young students are in anti sweatshop campaigns, prison campaigns, etc., it would be a good thing.
Michael Yates
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I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.
Antonio Gramsci
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Are you searching for the river of your soul? Then come out of your prison. Leave the stream and join the river that flows into the ocean.
Rumi
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A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.
Mahmoud Darwish
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People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.
William Deresiewicz
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If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
Danny Glover
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Prison guard unions have become the powerful political forces in some states, particularly California.
Michelle Alexander
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It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
Philip Sidney
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The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time. This is what really bothers you, that you can't win. Prison is lack of alternatives, and the telescopic predictability of the future is what drives you crazy.
Joseph Brodsky
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As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
Madame de Stael
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The first time I spoke publicly about the Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanley Milgram told me: Your study is going to take all the ethical heat off of my back. People are now going to say yours is the most unethical study ever, and not mine.
Philip Zimbardo
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They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
Nellie Bly
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When it comes to locations, I'm one of those crazy authors who has to see it, touch it, taste it, before I trust myself to recreate it for my readers. Having said that, visiting a locked-down pediatric psych ward was the most intimidating research I've ever done - and I've visited maximum security prisons, shooting galleries, bone collections, etc.
Lisa Gardner
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It's best that I hide my real personality. I cannot tell you what it is because I don't want to go to prison.
Gianfranco Zola
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Your mind is your prison when you focus on your fear.
Tim Fargo
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Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]
Irving Stone
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Only the man who has known freedom Can define his prison.
Catherine Fisher
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But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.
Janice Dickinson
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The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate.
Alan Dershowitz
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Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control
Robert Smithson
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