#prisons

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do? ↗

— Jerry Brown

#prisons #protect #punish

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

— Virginia Woolf

#others #our #prisons #their #thoughts

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

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. ↗

— Richard Burton

#islands #large #little #look #prisons

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama. ↗

— Joanna Lumley

#any #dalai #dalai lama #freedom #freedom of speech

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime? ↗

— Peter Kropotkin

#any #been #character #crime #enclose

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#blot #bombs #civilization #few #few people

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst! ↗

— James Connolly

#destroy #evoke #force #graves #imprison

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. ↗

— Horace Mann

#former #jails #latter #less #many

Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men. ↗

— Cammie McGovern

#prisons #men