#prisons

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#blank #definition #other #out #prisons

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. ↗

— Richard Burton

#islands #large #little #look #prisons

We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons. ↗

— Gale Sayers

#closing #must #prisons #schools #stop

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

#bunch #business #childhood #dad #had

One of the most productive ways a government can spend money on the people is by building more prisons. That’s what makes the US so great. That’s what freedom is all about.
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— Jarod Kintz

#government #greatness #jail #money #prisons

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. ↗

— Horace Mann

#former #jails #latter #less #many

The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons. ↗

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#american #american troops #atrocities #bombs #both

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

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

#christianity #christians #devout #devouts #goodness

Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are paying for it all. ↗

— Dan Benishek

#hospitals #illegal #illegal immigrants #immigrants #jobs