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Quotes and Sayings About prison
Nelson Mandela
Become
Country
First
Go
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Jack Kevorkian
Knows
Maybe
Out
Prison
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There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.
Jack Kevorkian
Die
Doubt
Expect
No Doubt
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Just look at the great Nelson Mandela. He came out of prison and saved his entire country. Some of the best people in the world have spent time in prison.
George Foreman
Great
Prison
Saved
Country
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Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.
Richard Wright
Built
Copied
Hearts
Men
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Marianne Williamson
Appetites
Beings
False
Glorious
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On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
Robert Anton Wilson
Break
Choice
Huge
Increasingly
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I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff.
Robert Orben
Arm
Around
Call
Gentle
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Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.
Lil Wayne
Always
Been
Confined
Find
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An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc
Henri Matisse
An artist
Prisoner
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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Does
Door
Him
Imprisoned
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As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.
Jackson Browne
Africa
Also
As Far As
Birthday
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I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God.
James Brown
Became
Believed
Cause
Couple
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When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.
Ho Chi Minh
Prison doors
Opened
Fly out
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Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.
Jay Z
Identity
Prison
Never escape
Redeem
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In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.
Theodor W. Adorno
Innermost recesses
Humanism
Soul
Frantic prisoner
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We are imprisoned within, hypnotized without, denying ourselves access to the internal peace and external harmony. Can we execute the perfect jailbreak when we have become our own jailers?
Russell Brand
Imprisoned within
Hypnotized
Denying ourselves
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Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
Tim Allen
Women
Have choices
Married
Job
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Tony Benn
Hope
Fuel
Progress
Fear
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Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.
Alan Moore
Happiness
Most insidious
Orison
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Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except me?
Alan Moore
Who imprisoned
Me here
Keeps
Release
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If children who commit crimes are not given the opportunity of a second chance, they may die in prison for acts made before having developed the cognitive and emotional skills needed to make informed and smart decisions and choices.
Alan Simpson
If children
Commit crimes
Not given
Opportunity
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Across the nation, there are thousands of individuals serving life or life-equivalent sentences for crimes they committed as children. This means they will likely die in prison without a chance to prove to society they are worthy of a second chance.
Alan Simpson
The nation
Thousands
Individuals
Serving life
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The richest of the rich is one who is not a prisoner to greed.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
The richest
Prisoner
To greed
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Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.
Andy Rooney
Christian
Goodness
Idea
Behaviour
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When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.
Angela Davis
When children
Attend schools
Greater value
On discipline
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Poor people, people of color,especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
Angela Davis
Poor people
Color
Be found
In prison
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Nothing is worse in prison than the consciousness of one's innocence; it prevents acclimatization and undermines one's morale
Arthur Koestler
In prison
The consciousness
One's innocence
Prevents acclimatization
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A charity in Burkina Faso teaches criminals to sing as part of rehabilitation. Some emerge from prison to rock stardom.
Charles Onyango-Obbo
Teaches criminals
Sing
Rehabilitation
Some emerge
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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
Aung San Suu Kyi
Real prison
Fear
Real freedom
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I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.
Aung San Suu Kyi
I think
Healthiest
Prisoner
Conscience
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A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes - and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Prison cell
One waits
Hopes
Completely dependent
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison
Simone Weil
Mind
Enclosed
Language
Prison
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What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us and running away, to strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
Willa Cather
Art
Moment
Life
Past
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Frail inmates who could be sent home to prevent the spread of covid-19 are dying in federal prisons.
Beth Reinhard
Frail inmates
Sent home
To prevent
The spread
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Alex Okoroji
Are caged
Own fears
Are prisoners
Own beliefs
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Don't be a prisoner of your own mind. It's time to become the highest expression of your gifts and talent. It's time for the world to UNCOVER your Greatness.
Alex Okoroji
A prisoner
Own mind
Highest expression
Your gifts
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Just because "things have always been like this" doesn't mean we can't create something better. Capitalism can go. Prisons can go. Policing systems can be reimagined. We can create a different variation of the world that works better.That's what humans do,Improve and Progress.
Charity Croff
Can't create
Something better
Capitalism
Improve
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You don't have to be a prisoner to your past self.Do what is authentic to you.
Amarachi Nwosu
Don't have
A prisoner
Past self
Is authentic
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If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.
Jean Vanier
Grow
Love
Egoism
Choices
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Our prison system was built to exploit and dehumanize so that corporations can profit.
Cori Bush
Prison system
Was built
To exploit
Dehumanize
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Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and indifferent.
Jim Morrison
Art
Blind
Enslavement
Silent
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I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God
John Bunyan
Stay
Prison
Disobey
God
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If you couldn't kill your adversaries, or keep them imprisoned for ever, there was surely only one option left in the Colonel Alexander canon: you change their minds.
Jon Ronson
Adversaries
Option
Change
Mind
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Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!
Max Lucado
Forgiveness
Unlocking
Free
Prisoner
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Routine is not a prison, but the way to freedom from time.
May Sarton
Routine
Prison
Freedom
Time
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Sleep is a prison for a boy who has friends to meet.
Michael Ondaatje
Sleep
Prison
Boy
Friends
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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people
Michel Foucault
Schools
Define
Control
People
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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body
Michel Foucault
Soul
Effect
Prison
Body
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