#prisons

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other. ↗

— Angela Davis

#break #convert #dangerous #designed #each

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout. ↗

— Tom Hayden

#build #california #clout #gangs #money

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#also #certain #exclusively #generalizations #human

Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons. ↗

— Richard Wright

#copied #hearts #men #prisons #realities

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#others #our #prisons #their #thoughts

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#despair #dreams #give #how #intellectual

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#camps #come #concentration #go #latino

The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind. ↗

— Jack Buck

#blind #communicate #exiled #game #get

I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#environments #humorous #i #mass #murder

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#destroy #fight #prisons #shall #them