Incarcerate Quotes

#1. May the state fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different? One might as well ask if the state, to avoid public unease, could incarcerate all who are physically unattractive or socially eccentric.

Potter Stewart

#2. In the United States we spend $40,000 a year to incarcerate each prison inmate and $8,000 to educate each elementary school student.

John Grisham

#3. If people are being upstanding citizens of the Republic, then you have to widen the net to incarcerate them. This explains why America's prisons are full of nonviolent offenders - a perfect example of American exceptionalism.

Henry Rollins

#4. I do not propose that everyone in Guantanamo or its evil twin at Bagram is innocent. I just don't believe we should incarcerate people without trial and torture them or facilitate and profit from their torture.

Nick Harkaway

#5. They told me how men made laws that allowed them to discriminate, segregate, and incarcerate without due process. Men are still writing those same laws today. They might wrap them in a different flag, but we can see that swastika underneath.

Dan Skinner

#6. It's always struck me as the ultimate insult to pay to park at hospitals; they incarcerate your friends and relations in rooms that cost six or seven hundred dollars a day, then put a little sting in by charging a few extra bucks to visit them.

Sara Paretsky

#7. We can't arrest and incarcerate addiction out of people. Not only do I think it's really inhumane, but it's ineffective and it cost us billions upon billions of dollars to keep doing this.

Michael Botticelli

#8. Let's Elevate, Educate, and Empower Our Youth ... Not Incarcerate Them! Try To HELP Our Youth ... Don't HURT Them! Lord knows they'll have plenty of enough hurdles to leap over in their lives!

Timothy Pina

#9. I built a jail in my closet and I would incarcerate my family from time to time.

Will Ferrell

#10. Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and thinking about the next crime? Or do we want them having a little purpose in life and learning a skill?

John Ensign

#11. Marriage should liberate, not incarcerate. Real love shouldn't limit a person's potential, it should expand it.

Seth Adam Smith

#12. It's ridiculous that we continue to incarcerate anyone for using a substance that actually causes far less damage than alcohol. No one goes out looking for fights on marijuana. No one dies from marijuana intoxication. And no one should be jailed for possessing marijuana.

Susan Sarandon

#13. the most important question is not whether the government has the power to incarcerate a person - almost invariably, it does. The proper question is whether that power has been exercised lawfully.

Joseph Margulies

#14. In the federal system alone there were 90,000 prisoners locked up for drug offenses, compared with about 40,000 for violent crimes. A federal prisoner costs at least $30,000 a year to incarcerate, and females actually cost more.

Piper Kerman

#15. We incarcerate more African-American men today than were slaves in 1850.

Marianne Williamson

#16. It's really difficult for fanatic churchgoers to understand God can't help me. I'm the only one who can help me.

Chuck Yeager

#17. Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.

Don DeLillo

#18. Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead.

Anne Sexton

#19. If you don't feel out of control, you're not driving fast enough.

Mario Andretti

#20. I've never been to the gym. I do nothing.

Adriana Lima

#21. What I mean by love ... is this. A sympathetic liking
excited by fancy, directed by judgment
and to which is joined also a most sincere desire of the good and happiness of its object.

Sarah Fielding

#22. Love begets glory,Work begets story.LOVED WORK Begets A Story of Glory!

Sujit Lalwani

#23. The majority of my UFO diet consists of reports describing suspected encounters. This is not surprising, as there are thousands of sightings annually. The emailer has seen something unusual in the sky that he interprets as probable evidence of alien presence.

Seth Shostak

#24. All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

Kofi Annan

#25. My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.

Yehuda Amichai

#26. It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.

Kevin Bales

#27. When Sister Saint Aelphaba neither confirmed nor denied this plan, Oatsie began to understand why the payment to take the green maunt away had been more than generous.

Gregory Maguire

#28. Your trials did not come to punish you, but to awaken you - to make you realise that you are a part of Spirit and that just behind the sparks of your life is the Flame of Infinity.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#29. Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.

Pope Francis

#30. I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they are designed to lock the world out. And the oddity is that either way, I am a prisoner who has sentenced himself to a prison within which I do not belong.

Craig D. Lounsbrough