Prison Abolition Quotes

#1. Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of capital punishment, prison torture and punishment of man by man altogether.

Peter Kropotkin

#2. Greenwich Village ... the village of low rents and high arts.

O. Henry

#3. Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'

N. T. Wright

#4. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly away at limited objectives, such as the abolition of the slave trade, or prison reform, or factory acts, or tuberculosis, not by those who think they can achieve universal justice, or health, or peace.

C.S. Lewis

#5. As long as a reader hasn't willingly put down his book, he is a potentially dangerous individual.

Annie Francois

#6. Except he'd been wrong about that. There was a monster in the lake. It had grabbed Hassan by the ankles, dragged him to the murky bottom. I was that monster. That was the night I became an insomniac.

Khaled Hosseini

#7. It was like splashing in a blowup baby pool in the backyard, when you'd become used to swimming in the ocean. How

Claire Thompson

#8. The military prison at Guantanamo was the equivalent of any concentration camp in Nazi Germany, the most shameful example of the cruel and complete abolition of all human rights by the Government, all in the name of the war on terrorism.

Kenneth Eade

#9. The court, as now constituted, would be meaningless without the jail which gives it its power. But if there is anything I have learned by being in jail, it is that prisons are wrong, simply and unqualifiedly wrong.

Barbara Deming

#10. It is not an easy thing," she said, "to love more than one is loved.

Joan Wolf

#11. A baseball club for girls?

Emily J. Proctor

#12. It's a ridiculous profession and it's getting worse. It's becoming almost like palm reading or phrenology. It's been relegated to pop best sellers and talk shows. The only people that take it seriously are upper middle class people who are lonely and can afford to pay someone to listen to them.

Ian Shoales

#13. It felt like his head was spinning faster than his body, and his stomach flipped over with the dizziness.

James Dashner