#prisoners

If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#animal-rights #animal-testing #animal-welfare #animals #cosmetics

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#prison

They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#prisoners #science-fiction #freedom

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link. ↗

— Simone Weil

#cells #communicate #communication #each #every

It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#also #asserted #dead #election #issues

I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote. ↗

— William Hague

#been #having #i #myself #opposed

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War. ↗

— Michael Badnarik

#because #caused #early #federal #get

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#fiercest #go #her #lets #pain

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

— Tom McClintock

#civilized #free #hold #i #i believe

I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff. ↗

— Robert Orben

#around #call #gentle #go #humor