#prison

It was when I was in a police cell at the C.I.D. (Central Intelligence Division) headquarters in Lagos; the cell I was in named "The Kalakuta Republic" by the prisoners. I found out when I went to East Africa that "Kalakuta" is a Swahili word that means "rascal." So if rascality is going to get us what we want, we will use it; because we are dealing with corrupt people, we have to be rascally with them. ↗

— Fela Anikulapo Kuti

#fela-anikulapo-kuti #prison #rascal #intelligence

In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners. ↗

— Daniel Boone

#brow #day #decline #hill #indians

When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes. ↗

— Janet Flanner

#courthouse #look #looking #nuremberg #prisoners

A prisoner's shackles would always be a lawyers joy. ↗

— Dennis E. Adonis

#chance #deceit #freedom #lawyers #life

Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so. ↗

— Barney Frank

#good #keeping #lawyers #out #prison

But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of their Spirits, than by the former way before described. ↗

— George Ripley

#before #described #drawn #easily #extract

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#everyone #experiences #his #just #own

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. [...] Naturally a well-run prison must have a prison industry. I'm sure you see why." "Well... it helps to keep the inmates busy, I suppose. Takes their minds off the boredom and futility of their lives." "Yes. Can you name yours?" "Our prison industry? Not offhand. I suppose it's obvious." "Quite obvious, I would say." I gave it some thought. "Consuming the world." Ishmael nodded. "Got it on the first try. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#life-lessons #plain-truth #prison #world-changer #business

I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me. ↗

— Diet Eman

#holocaust #jesus-christ #prison #resistance #righteous

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#cell #crisis #death #prison #revelation