I would never say, to justify a lapse in principle, "I am only human"--as though that were some kind of justification for weakness, moral weakness. Flesh and blood is much, much stronger than fools believe.

Jack Henry Abbott

Mots clés fools flesh-blood

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The only time they appear human is when you have a knife at their throats. The instant you remove it, they fall back into animality. Obscenity.

Jack Henry Abbott

Mots clés prison-guards

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Everyone 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 Abbott

Mots clés prison violence

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I cannot be critical of an infant whose only possible source of nourishment can be found in the dugs of a wolf.

Jack Henry Abbott

Mots clés prison

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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

Jack Henry Abbott

Mots clés self-control time-passing state-of-mind

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