#prison

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#avoid #beyond #goes #insofar #keep

Imprisonment hit me so hard - much harder than I had thought. ↗

— Mathias Rust

#hard #harder #hit #i #imprisonment

It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to you, they have no authority over you. These maniacs have no authority over us. And they might be able to put our bodies in prison, but they can't put our spirits in prison. ↗

— Cindy Sheehan

#authority #bodies #break #country #immoral

The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that. ↗

— Peter Singer

#accordance #clearer #convention #course #geneva

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. ↗

— Eric Stonestreet

#bunch #business #childhood #dad #had

Most of the prisoners told the interpreter that they are from Mandingo. ↗

— Lewis Tappan

#most #prisoners #told

The prisoners eyed the clothes some time, and laughed a good deal among themselves before they put them on. ↗

— Lewis Tappan

#before #clothes #deal #eyed #good

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#atmospheric #convey #i #long-term #might

When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you? ↗

— Jim Bakker

#first #god #i #prison #questioning

I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison. ↗

— Daniil Kharms

#prison #conscience