Overpunishes Quotes

#1. We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.

Piper Kerman

#2. From Him are all name and form; all the animals and men are from Him. He is the one Supreme. He who knows Him becomes free.

Swami Vivekananda

#3. As I get older, I've been having a better and better time.

Clive Owen

#4. Am I not peaceful? We want to be free - completely free. Free to be free. We want to be left alone.

Sukarno

#5. I was never told to "Get up, get out there, get a job." It was never a thing either parent ever said I had to do. It was what I wanted to do. I think I was very interested in being away from them as much as possible. Employment was great for that.

Henry Rollins

#6. In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around the black community and identify who the leaders were.

Roger Wilkins

#7. When he noticed that pro basketball stars were far less likely to be called for traveling than lesser players, he didn't just holler at the refs. He stopped watching basketball altogether; the injustice of it killed his interest in the sport.

Michael Lewis

#8. Just because we are women doesn't mean the only roles we can play are that of the finger-shaking girlfriend.

Sarah Shahi

#9. HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old- fashioned sea-captains.

Ambrose Bierce

#10. We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

John Webster

#11. Don't beat yourself up," said Charlotte. "True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion ...

Shannon Hale

#12. Personal Responsibility is the acknowledgement of the fact that I am personally responsible for what is happening in my life, in my surrounding and in my nation.

Sunday Adelaja

#13. After my second-to-last record, 'The Greatest', I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, or anger toward myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.

Cat Power