#prison

All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#being #date #ever #existed #human

But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#gilded #i #incredibly #jets #lonely

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link. ↗

— Simone Weil

#cells #communicate #communication #each #every

A mind enclosed in language is in prison. ↗

— Simone Weil

#language #mind #prison

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#lessons #many #prison #things #will

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#choice #huge #increasingly #intelligent #jail

Every invalid is a prisoner. ↗

— Marguerite Yourcenar

#invalid #prisoner

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#chained #greatest #hounded #imprisoned #nevertheless

I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner. ↗

— Al Goldstein

#although #am #being #i #i am

Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#better off #better way #business #close #complicated