Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nelson Mandela

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.

Asif Ali Zardari

I have done prison time for 13 years without any conviction.

Robert D. Hare

Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.

Ryan Ross

The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.

Roberto Bolano

Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.

Felix Kulov

In many prisons the staff have returned to work,

Friedrich Durrenmatt

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

Epictetus

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

Nelson Mandela

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.

Marian Wright Edelman

We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.

Richard Dawkins

I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.

Saul Bellow

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

Robin Morgan

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.

Jonathan Sacks

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

Andrew Solomon

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

Victor Hugo

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.