#prison

I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime? ↗

— Criss Jami

#apologetics #atrocities #belief #bias #biases

Instead of making prisoners out of our students, we ought to make students out of our prisoners. ↗

— Paul W. Silver

#prisoners #students #dreams

I’ve only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a few times. But I still claim the ability to write a "serious" novel. ↗

— Roman Payne

#growth #hard-times #hardship #jail #jailbird

He who has never tasted jail Lives well within the legal pale, While he who's served a heavy sentence Renews the racket, not repentance. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#experience-to-let #jail #prison #repentance #experience

You're still in prison if you do nothing better in freedom. ↗

— Toba Beta

#freedom #prison #freedom

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. ↗

— Carrie P. Meek

#another #bill #billions #build #congress

To Mr. Seward: It is my desire that, in case Maximillian will surrender, he be sent here a prisoner of war, but that in the event of his continuing the war, or refusing to surrender, then he be shot. ↗

— Joshua A. Norton

#continuing #desire #event #here #his

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard. ↗

— Barry Pepper

#casting directors #directors #guard #just #me

The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored. ↗

— Gideon Raff

#almost #discussed #explored #lives #never

People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world. ↗

— Matthew Shipp

#certain #come #generation #looking #own