Quotes about Prisons

Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings… Votes: 4

Prisons are the universities of the opposition. Votes: 3

Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state. Votes: 3

Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory. Votes: 3

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types. Votes: 3

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. Votes: 3

Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them. Votes: 3

Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them." Votes: 3

The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth Votes: 3

Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities. Votes: 3

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do? Votes: 3

Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed. Votes: 3

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance. Votes: 3

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino. Votes: 3

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino." Votes: 3

Prisons where people can't even work is the worst punishment you can think of. And I don't think we should put all convicts in such facilities where people are deprived of their freedom. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The first point of contact for radicalisation is almost always a personal one. Prisons and universities, for example, tend to be easily and regularly infiltrated by radical groups, who use them as forums to propagate their ideas. Votes: 3

Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages. Votes: 3

If you ask for good schools, you aren't likely to get them. If you ask for jobs or economic investment, you won't get that either. But what we have learned, is that the one thing that poor folks of color can ask for and get are Police & Prisons. Votes: 3

A word of advice: If you get the choice between the upper and lower bunks in a cell, choose the lower. Prisons do not turn off their lights at night, and I spent a sleepless night, without a mattress, with a five-hundred-watt bulb shining directly into my eyes. Votes: 3

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. Votes: 1

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them. Votes: 1

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. Votes: 1

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave. Votes: 1

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation. Votes: 1

As a prosecutor, I've been in prisons. I've had the opportunity to see what they're like in America. Votes: 1

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. Votes: 1

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing. Votes: 1

Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are paying for it all. Votes: 1

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars. Votes: 1

We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians. Votes: 1

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other. Votes: 1

The United States is holding hundreds of suspected terrorists in prisons at Guantanamo and elsewhere. Many are locked up indefinitely. They have not been tried or even charged with any crime. Votes: 1

Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime? Votes: 1

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst! Votes: 1

I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality. Votes: 1

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them. Votes: 1

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas. Votes: 1

Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shelters, hospital emergency rooms, jails, prisons - these are expensive and ineffective ways to intervene and there are people who clearly profit from this cycle of continued suffering. Votes: 1

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law. Votes: 1

I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me. Votes: 1

I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I have people over, all they have to do is glance at my books, and I implore them to take a few home with them. If I am really ambitious, I pack books into boxes and donate them to prisons. Votes: 1

Convictions are prisons. Votes: 0

Are there no prisons? Votes: 0

Not all prisons have bars Votes: 0

Most prisons have wide gates! Votes: 0

There are worse prisons than words. Votes: 0

Schools resemble the culture of prisons. Votes: 0

Better to build orphanages than prisons. Votes: 0

America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. Votes: 0

Tribes must be our homes, not our prisons. Votes: 0

There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons. Votes: 0

Obstacles are opportunities turned upside downor prisons self-imposed. Votes: 0

No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons. Votes: 0

The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality. Votes: 0

Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ? Votes: 0

The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars Votes: 0

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons. Votes: 0

We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles. Votes: 0

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously. Votes: 0

We will never build enough prisons to end our crime problem. Votes: 0

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions Votes: 0

I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones. Votes: 0

We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons. Votes: 0

We need to fight for free education and defund the prisons Votes: 0

Building prisons to fight crime is like building cemeteries to fight disease. Votes: 0

Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind? Votes: 0

Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons. Votes: 0

Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God. Votes: 0

It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons. Votes: 0

The way people are treated in them [prisons] is very similar to gulags. Votes: 0

Instead of schools being a pipeline to opportunity, schools are feeding our prisons. Votes: 0

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells. Votes: 0

God uses prisons to train people for future roles of leadership or martyrdom. Votes: 0

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too. Votes: 0

Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons? Votes: 0

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured. Votes: 0

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. Votes: 0

If every crime victim had to have perfect judgment, we could empty our prisons. Votes: 0

Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes. Votes: 0

A society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons. Votes: 0

What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer. Votes: 0

Scientists are the enemies of tradition , and tradition own all the prisons. - Victor Vigny Votes: 0

Nobody is free… Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons. Votes: 0

Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons. Votes: 0

The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard. Votes: 0

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life. Votes: 0

I've spent a lot of time in prisons, first doing legal work and later, teaching. Votes: 0

First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons. Votes: 0

I knew a girl so ugly, they use her in prisons to cure sex offenders. Votes: 0

[We need] to nurture the entrepreneurial spirit and the tremendous untapped potential in our prisons. Votes: 0

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons. Votes: 0

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children Votes: 0

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children. Votes: 0

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children. Votes: 0

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair. Votes: 0

Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think. Votes: 0

We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports. Votes: 0

There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus. Votes: 0

As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization. Votes: 0

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people. Votes: 0

Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build Votes: 0

I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous." Votes: 0

The world like our heads was meant to be escaped from, they are prisons world and head alike. Votes: 0

I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous. Votes: 0

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion. Votes: 0

Empty your birdcage, empty your aquarium! To love is to give freedom; to love is to refuse the prisons! Votes: 0

I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate. Votes: 0

Not every one of us are born or made free of our own prisons to the extent of ourselves. Votes: 0

I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru. Votes: 0

The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity. Votes: 0

If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs. Votes: 0

Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there. Votes: 0

When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons. Votes: 0

If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up. Votes: 0

This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are. Votes: 0

The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous. Votes: 0

Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason. Votes: 0

Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. Votes: 0

Over the course of my career, which is about 40 years, I've visited plenty of prisons and I know what they're like. Votes: 0

Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up. Votes: 0

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business. Votes: 0

I tell ya, I know the best way to get girls. I hang out at women's prisons, and wait for parolees. Votes: 0

The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons. Votes: 0

Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held. Votes: 0

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout. Votes: 0

All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away. Votes: 0

When sex becomes conscious it is love, it is no longer lust. Love brings freedom, and lust simply creates prisons for you. Votes: 0

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons. Votes: 0

The worst prisons were not constructed of warped steel and stone. They were carved out of expectations and lies, judgment and corruption. Votes: 0

They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function. Votes: 0

Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout. Votes: 0

The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept. Votes: 0

Maybe I could survive in one of those resort prisons where they house white-collar criminals. I've always wanted to get better at tennis. Votes: 0

I think it's very important. I've gone into prisons to meditate with inmates. It's something I plan to do with Tim Robbins soon. Votes: 0

If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices. Votes: 0

California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a civilization. Votes: 0

Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons? Votes: 0

If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals. Votes: 0

I've worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant education offices, continuation high schools, juvenile halls, prisons, and gifted classrooms. Votes: 0

Puffballs of vanity when they're not being absurdly violent; wretchedly unhappy in their mental prisons and too stubborn to open the door and escape. Votes: 0

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations. Votes: 0

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems." Votes: 0

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems. Votes: 0

The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind. Votes: 0

Little information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones of our life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The leading members of ISIS were either tortured in US military prisons or in the prisons of the Shi'a government which the Americans put in place. Votes: 0

The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and our frustrations are unhappy. Votes: 0

And Communist Russia was so bad because they followed their people, they snooped on them, they arrested them, they put them in secret prisons, they disappeared them. Votes: 0

I don't feel uncomfortable in forbidding institutions, and work with, say, prisons or psychiatric institutions could be one of the things that evolve out of the Laureateship. Votes: 0

Look, I promise I'm not psychotic. Eccentric and idiosyncratic, but not psychotic. (Sebastian) I'll bet the prisons are full of men who have told women that. (Channon) Votes: 0

People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick. Votes: 0

The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say. Votes: 0

Republican candidate Ben Carson told reporters he thinks American prisons might be too comfortable. As opposed to Mexican prisons that have personal showers with $5 million escape tunnels. Votes: 0

And please, please, lets us put mental health back on the top of our national agenda, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions. Votes: 0

When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness into freedom. Votes: 0

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just. Votes: 0

Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons. Votes: 0

I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below. Votes: 0

All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones. Votes: 0

The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society. Votes: 0

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history. Votes: 0

Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys us that they don't do something else! Votes: 0

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama. Votes: 0

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether. Votes: 0

Keeping them behind bars does little to reduce crime, but it does a lot to tear apart families, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions. Votes: 0

We need to have more second chance programs. I'm glad that we're ending private prisons in the federal system; I want to see them ended in the state system. Votes: 0

Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace. Votes: 0

All hells in this world are the prisons you make in your own heart; all battles must be fought there', said Charlie. My grandma used to say that to me. Votes: 0

Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner city schools to brand-new, high-tech prisons. Votes: 0

Hearts aren't handcuffs and people aren't prisons. When you feel it's time for you to leave, you leave. You neither need to wait to be released, nor ask for permission. Votes: 0

As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that will be the beginning of civilization. Votes: 0

In Europe, Socialism is just another political party. It just means that government takes over certain things like hospitals, prisons, military and schools that should not be run for profit. Votes: 0

It would serve the Americans right if we emptied the prisons and let the subversives take power. They'd soon show Washington just how much they appreciate good old American values. Votes: 0

There are areas of official life in the United States that are similar to Russia. For example: disbursement of protest, and the way American prisons are run, which is pretty tough. Votes: 0

Could we chose to amend the rules of the game to create a society that values people over profits, life over pollution, mutual care over guns and prisons, vision over dysfunction? Votes: 0

I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did. Votes: 0

That's why you need the war on drugs to put all these pot smokers in prison so that the prisons remain full and the corporations remain profitable. It's a slippery slope. Votes: 0

My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road. Votes: 0

I not only play at the prestigious classical concert halls like Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center, but also hospitals, churches, prisons, and restricted facilities for leprosy patients, just to mention a few. Votes: 0

The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap, what are you going to do? It's a real crisis. Votes: 0

This is the language of the world before—a world of chaos and confusion and happiness and despair—before the blitz turned streets to grids, cities to prisons, and hearts to dust. Votes: 0

You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli forces, and everything stops in these cities. This is the result of Oslo. Votes: 0

Outside of a few national security issues like treason that the Constitution lays out, we don't need federal crimes, and we don't need federal prisons. We need state crimes and state prisons. Votes: 0

. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and abondoned efforts to treat alcoholics simply by locking them up. Votes: 0

I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of. Votes: 0

The Department of Justice has become a de-facto legal arm for Muslim Brotherhood groups. I mean, they are suing towns, they are suing schools, they are suing prisons, really to impose the Shariah. Votes: 0

You have a wonderful organization. I understand you have ten thousand here. And if you count the ones in the various federal prisons, it brings your total membership up to around thirty thousand. Votes: 0

It appears that the murder rate inside prisons is ten times higher than that outside prisons. It must be due to all those Kalashnikov rifles that are issued to prisoners upon their incarceration. Votes: 0

The outer prisons are made by the community to contain those who have dared break its laws. The inner prisons each man makes for himself because of what he feels are his transgressions. Votes: 0

Corporations care very much about maintaining the myth that government is necessarily ineffective, except when it is spending money on the military-industrial complex, building prisons, or providing infrastructural support for the business sector. Votes: 0

It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums and other tributes to all of our collective failures. It is time that we start building living monuments to hope and possibility. Votes: 0

What makes Bush different from Hitler? He commits crimes in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons. With all these crimes, they still behave like bullying claimants. They get angry once they see an independant nation. Votes: 0

With no adequate role to play as consumers, many youth are now considered disposable, forced to inhabit "zones of social abandonment" extending from homeless shelters and bad schools to bulging detention centers and prisons. Votes: 0

The Americans make associations to give entertainment, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries to the antipodes; in this manner, they found hospitals, prisons and schools. Votes: 0

I don't do casinos or prisons; I like to do projects that enhance the lives of everyday people, like campus buildings, libraries, museums and government buildings. That's why I love working in the public sector. Votes: 0

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent. Votes: 0

Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms of overt or covert terrorism? Of course, the answer is an unambiguous YES. Votes: 0

Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few hardened prisoners are more or less surreptitiously continuing their real vocations. Votes: 0

Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail and prisons, however, they can each generate corporate revenues of $30,000 to $40,000 a year. Votes: 0