Carceral State Quotes

#1. I did not come to this country for the terror from paramilitary," declared Voytek, hoarsely. "I did not come to this country for motherfucker. But motherfucker is waiting. Always. Is carceral state, surveillance state. Orwell. You have read Orwell?

William Gibson

#2. Just as soon as any conviction of important truth becomes central and vital, there comes the desire to utter it a desire which is immediate and irresistible. Sacrifice is gladness, service is joy, when such an idea becomes a commanding power.

Richard Salter Storrs

#3. Children are God's homework assignment to parents. We are commissioned to love, teach and train them up for successful adulthood.

Stephen Kendrick

#4. soldiers on the battlefield of consumerism, armed with vinyl-covered checkbooks and quilted handbags.

Gillian Flynn

#5. Hannah with the ponytail was one of those women who laugh readily and can talk nonsense for hours without a single sensible thing being said. In principle I try to ignore people like that as much as possible. I simply choose not to think about them. Make up my mind that they don't exist.

Jonas Karlsson

#6. Mitt Romney had a horse competing in the Olympics. He didn't win. But next year, he'll be competing in 'Dancing with the Stars.'

David Letterman

#7. But humans, with our millions of sweat glands, are the best air-cooled engine that evolution has ever put on the market.

Christopher McDougall

#8. I can't imagine any fairminded future person feeling there was an important moral difference between the Soviet gulag and the American one.

Benjamin Kunkel

#9. During the really tough first couple of years in prison, I felt like the 23rd Psalm was dictated by the Lord specifically for POWs.

Leo Thorsness

#10. That's when I wanted to cut. I cut to quiet the cacophony. I cut to end this abstracted agony, to reel my selves back to one present and physical whole, whose blood was the proof of her tangibility.

Caroline Kettlewell