Prisons Quotes
-
Keeping them behind bars does little to reduce crime, but it does a lot to tear apart families, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.
Hillary Clinton -
You can be horrified by the state of the prisons, the misery in certain neighborhoods of its cities, or their level of poverty. Anti-Americanism, by which I mean a hatred for America as such-its transformation into a metaphysical category, which incarnates all the evil in the world-is one of fascism's favorite themes. Look at writer and political theorist Charles Maurras in France. The philosopher Martin Heidegger in Germany. The radical Islamists of today!
Bernard-Henri Levy
-
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
George Bernard Shaw -
Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings…
Angela Davis -
There is simply too much unnecessary suffering in our world. And we should see that as a national security risk, by the way. Given enough time, desperate people will tend to do desperate things. At a certain point you won't be able to build enough prisons or enough bombs to eradicate the effects of all that violence inside so many hearts.
Marianne Williamson -
Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.
Edward McKendree Bounds -
And please, please, lets us put mental health back on the top of our national agenda, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.
Hillary Clinton
-
If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
For thirty years, we’ve been saying “more cops, more prisons, tougher laws.” Not only hasn’t it really worked in terms of crime, but beyond that the fallout has been so significant.
Eugene Puryear -
I knew a girl so ugly, they use her in prisons to cure sex offenders.
Jack Roy -
Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.
Carrie P. Meek -
Right outside of Kansas City is Leavenworth, and there are, like, five prisons there. It was kind of the tapestry of my childhood. I was always fascinated. I wanted to know what was behind those walls.
Eric Stonestreet -
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
-
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
William Blake -
You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli forces, and everything stops in these cities. This is the result of Oslo.
Hassan Nasrallah -
We will never build enough prisons to end our crime problem.
Hillary Clinton -
We need to fight for free education and defund the prisons
Chris Crass -
When calling for authenticity, we need to take seriously the brokenness and sinfulness of the human heart. If to be authentic means to be who we really are or to express what we really feel, then in most cases I’m going to vote for hypocrisy. Our prisons are filled with men and women who acted on their feelings and impulses. If authenticity is about being true to yourself, these individuals should be our models of inspiration.
Erwin McManus -
The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own doctors to replace your judges and its hospitals to replace your prisons. Liberty shall be equated with health. Ointments and oil shall be applied to limbs that were once shackled and branded. Infirmities that once were scourged with anger shall now be bathed with love. The cross in place of the gallows: sublime and yet so simple.
Victor Hugo
-
The prime purpose of the occupation was not to take land or push people from their homes. It did that too of course, and effectively, but overall, with its checkpointed and its walls and its prisons and its permits, it functioned as a giant humiliation machine, a complex and sophisticated mechanism for the production of human despair.
Ben Ehrenreich -
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
Judge Mills Lane -
Are there no prisons?
Charles Dickens -
The darkest prisons were those of the mind.
Elizabeth Chadwick