I would prefer to remain in prison for another 20 years than bargain my beliefs for freedom.
Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.
I'm playing somebody who is a recovering drug addict who got out of prison. It takes place in 2 weeks-the 1st 2 weeks I'm out of prison.
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.
We've all had some level of injustice, whether 20 years in prison, or 20 minutes sitting in your car waiting for a police officer to determine your future. Or even a few moments in an elevator with some woman clutching her purse thinking you're going to rob her ¾ regardless of celebrity, that has happened to me.
The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison.
The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the House was distressing to Members of Parliament generally.
Too many people are living in a prison that they have themselves manufactured.
Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!
I have been shown in darkness, light [and] have learned that, even in prison, one can be free.
That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You’re both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds.
Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon. . or God.
Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
For children, the era of mass incarceration has meant a tremendous amount of family separation, broken homes, poverty, and a far, far greater level of hopelessness as they see so many of their loved ones cycling in and out of prison. Children who have incarcerated parents are far more likely themselves to be incarcerated.
It hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world’s largest open-air prison.
Prison has taught me that there is a part of you that no-one can ever take from you, and that is your heart.
Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.
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.