#prisons

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave. ↗

— Burt Reynolds

#kind #leave #movies #nobody #prisons

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

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

If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up. ↗

— Mike Singletary

#does #growing #growing up #his #i

The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous. ↗

— Jack Herer

#dead #hands #only #police #prisons

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

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

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