We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.
Norman MailerEveryone in prison has an ideal of violence, murder. Beneath all relationships between prisoners is the ever-present fact of murder. It ultimately defines our relationship among ourselves.
Jack Henry AbbottI cannot be critical of an infant whose only possible source of nourishment can be found in the dugs of a wolf.
Jack Henry AbbottTags: prison
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
James RuncieTags: philosophy home prison grave body
How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.
Alexandre DumasTags: prison escape prison-escape
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas JeffersonTags: justice tyranny prison danger law torture
I was kind of excited to go to jail for the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
Quentin TarantinoTags: humor inspiration prison jail
Being a copper I like to see the law win. I'd like to see the flashy well-dressed mugs like Eddie Mars spoiling their manicures in the rock quarry at Folsom, alongside of the poor little slum-bred guys that got knocked over on their first caper amd never had a break since. That's what I'd like. You and me both lived too long to think I'm likely to see it happen. Not in this town, not in any town half this size, in any part of this wide, green and beautiful U.S.A. We just don't run our country that way.
Raymond ChandlerTags: money injustice justice america prison corruption crime
I'm the smartest man in the world. Once I wore a cape in public, and fought battles against men who could fly, who had metal skin, who could kill you with their eyes. I fought CoreFire to a standstill, and the Super Squadron, and the Champions. Now I have to shuffle through a cafeteria line with men who tried to pass bad checks. Now I have to wonder if there will be chocolate milk in the dispenser. And whether the smartest man in the world has done the smartest thing he could do with his life.
Austin GrossmanTags: prison superheroes chocolate-milk supervillains
Should I, too, prefer the title of 'non-Jewish Jew'? For some time, I would have identified myself strongly with the attitude expressed by Rosa Luxemburg, writing from prison in 1917 to her anguished friend Mathilde Wurm:
What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the blacks of Africa with whose bodies the Europeans play ball… I have no special corner in my heart for the ghetto: I am at home in the entire world, where there are clouds and birds and human tears.
An inordinate proportion of the Marxists I have known would probably have formulated their own views in much the same way. It was almost a point of honor not to engage in 'thinking with the blood,' to borrow a notable phrase from D.H. Lawrence, and to immerse Jewishness in other and wider struggles. Indeed, the old canard about 'rootless cosmopolitanism' finds a perverse sort of endorsement in Jewish internationalism: the more emphatically somebody stresses that sort of rhetoric about the suffering of others, the more likely I would be to assume that the speaker was a Jew. Does this mean that I think there are Jewish 'characteristics'? Yes, I think it must mean that. Christopher Hitchens
Tags: compassion empathy africa prison suffering africans dh-lawrence race racism jews marxism internationalism victims rosa-luxemburg europeans jewish-question plantations mathilde-verne rootless-cosmopolitanism
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