#prison

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado. ↗

— Tom McClintock

#civilized #free #hold #i #i believe

It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they clearly deserve it. ↗

— Thomas Mellon

#condemn #confinement #creatures #deserve #fellow

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#conscience #evil #parents #penance #prison

I went to prison, I paid my bill. ↗

— George Michael

#i #paid #prison #went

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. ↗

— Henry Miller

#crime #his #lives #over #prisoner

Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#body #considered #developed #five #fully

Once somebody is known, it seems as though anybody anywhere can say anything about them. Whereas if I simply stopped someone in the street and criticised their clothes, their work, their parents, their inner being, I'd be sued and I'd be thrown in prison. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#anybody #anything #anywhere #being #clothes

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down. ↗

— Huey Newton

#hold #movement #our #prison #which

I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#becoming #country #dictatorship #during #family

I was never a prisoner to my footballing status. ↗

— Michel Patini

#never #prisoner #status