Quotes About Prison

I know that the response of the powerful to this disorder—alternating as it does between a dull complacency and, when the disorder spills out of its proscribed confines, a steady, unthinking application of force, of longer prison sentences and more sophisticated military hardware—is inadequate to the task.

Most families would sooner forgive you for going to prison than for moving out of

Dalam keadaan tertekan, wanita berbicara tanpa berpikir, sedangkan laki-laki bertindak tanpa berpikir. Tak heran 90% penghuni penjara sedangkan laki-laki dan 90% pengunjung terapis adalah perempuan.

Exposure to an unusually spectacular place in conducive circumstance, the thinking goes, can release one from the prison of one's own ego and initiate a renewed awareness of the wondrous, salutary, and informing nature of the Other, the thing outside of the self.

The soul is the "real" person; the body is a prison.

No es una hoja de papel lo que hace a un hombre. Ni la cárcel lo que le deshace.

It goes back to what I said about Andy wearing his freedom like an invisibility coat, about how he never really developed a prison mentality. His eyes never got that dull look.

This happened in 1932, when the state penitentiary was still at Cold Mountain. And the electric chair was there, too, of course.

As subjects, Pfeiffer used inmates at the federal prison in Atlanta and at a juvenile detention center in Bordentown, New Jersey.

While the Americans protected veterans of Unit 731, the Soviets captured twelve of them and charged them with war crimes. All were convicted and given prison terms ranging from two to twenty-five years. Their trials were not widely publicized.

He records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

Clinging to any entity—including self, other, cat, or God—puts us into a conceptual prison. This is true of all beliefs, all grasped concepts. They all obstruct true Religious Experience—direct experience of Reality.

Also, since people tend to get less violent as they get older, keeping men in prison beyond a certain point does little to reduce crime.

Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Right believing is a light that illuminates the path to freedom out of this prison.

Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. Walk out like someone suddenly born into color. Do it now.

Fear is a self imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move against it with the weapons of faith and love.

Most of the men thrown into the back of the van that night were drunk, but none was in public: each was in his own home. And yet not one of them questioned the legality of his arrest. After nearly a dace of democracy, each assumed that the cops had every right to drag him out of his home and throw him in prison.

One of the major contributions of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, The Gulag Archipelago, was his analysis of the direct causal relationship between the pathology of the Soviet prison-work-camp dependent state (where millions suffered and died) and the almost universal proclivity of the Soviet citizen to falsify his own day-to-day personal experience, deny his own state-induced suffering, and thereby prop up the dictates of the rational, ideology-possessed communist system.

Lá fora é a liberdade e o sol. A cadeia, os presos na cadeia, a surra ensinaram a Pedro Bala que a liberdade é o bem maior do mundo. Agora sabe que não foi apenas para que sua história fosse contada no cais, no mercado, na Porta do Mar, que seu pai morrera pela liberdade. A liberdade é como o sol. É o bem maior do mundo.

O Sem-Pernas sentia que uma angústia o tomava e que era impossível dormir. Se dormisse viriam os maus sonhos da cadeia. Queria que aparecesse alguém a quem ele pudesse torturar com dichotes. Queria uma briga. Pensou em ir acender um fósforo na perna de um que dormisse. Mas quando olhou da porta do trapiche, sentiu somente pena e uma doida vontade de fugir. E saiu correndo pelo areal, correndo sem fito, fugindo da sua angústia.

I'm in prison because I'm a free man, because I found it necessary to exercise my freedom, because I accepted this necessity.

C'était le grand bagne de l'Amérique transporté sur notre continent.

A fé na cultura moderna era triste: era saber que amanhã seria essencialmente igual a hoje; que o progresso consistia somente em avançar, por todos os "sempres", sobre um caminho idêntico ao que já estava sob nossos pés. Um caminho assim está mais para uma prisão que, elástica, se alonga sem nos libertar.

9 Then I said: 'I am afraid of this place and cannot stand to look at it.!' Then Uriel, one of the holy angels who was with me, answered and said to me: 'Enoch, why are you so afraid?' 10 And I answered: 'Because of this fearful place, and because of the spectacle of the pain.' And he said to me: 'This place is the prison of the angels, and here they will be imprisoned for ever.'