Quotes of: Political-prisoners Keyword

H.I.: Prison life is structured - more'n some people care for.

Raising Arizona

Marcus Licinius Crassus: The enemies of the state are known, arrests are being made, the prisons begin to fill.

Spartacus

One of America's greatest strengths is the soft power of our value system and how we treat prisoners of war, and we don't torture.

Tom Ridge

I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.

Sam Sheppard

I sample a little bit of everything - a bit of 'House,' a little bit of 'Prison Break.' I love 'Project Runway;' it's my favorite show!

Michaela Conlin

You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts.

Stedman Graham

George: Danbury wasn't a prison, it was a crime school. I went in with a Bachelor of marijuana, came out with a Doctorate of cocaine.

Blow

May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

You spend a lot of time thinking about how awful the prison is rather than envisioning your future.

Life

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

William C. Bryant

Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.

Wentworth Miller

To serve our elders is a duty, our equals it is polite, but serving the young is humiliating.

Serbian

To engage in activism that envisions alternatives ways of organizing society and alternative ways of being is to risk membership in society, a sense of belonging, however partial it may be. Activism can make us vulnerable because it is so obviously a...

Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight against AIDS

In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy's always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs's got that sly smile, like he always knows what's up, like nothing can ruffle him.

Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reagan

The public's abiding fascination with flaying saucers, C.G. Jung suggests, 'may be a spontaneous reaction of the subconscious to fear of the apparently insoluble political situation in the world that may lead at any moment to catastrophe. At such tim...

Welcome to Mars: Politics, Pop Culture, and Weird Science in 1950s America

Standard languages are inventions, most of them confined to a recent period in human history. They are codes that give access not to clear thinking and basic decency but to the structured parts of our lives such as job interviews, political speeches,...

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

Since the Enlightenment, the political order is an order of freedom. The political structures are no longer given, previous to man's freedom, but are rather realities based on freedom, taken on and modified by man. . . . This new definition of politi...

A Theology of Liberation

The only kind of appeal that wins any instinctive response in party politics is an appeal to hostile feeling; the men who perceive the need of cooperation are powerless. Until education has been directed for a generation into new channels, and the Pr...

Sceptical Essays

We all have an unscientific weakness for being always in the right, and this weakness seems to be particularly common among professional and amateur politicians. But the only way to apply something like scientific method in politics is to proceed on ...

The Poverty of Historicism

When your neighbor walks through your orchard, the polite thing to do is to ignore it.

Chinese

Learn from the past, but don't be a prisoner of it.

A Fresh Start: 5 Keys to Stepping into Your Best Season