Quotes About Prison Rehabilitation

#1. And as long as we believe what we believe-until that is questioned-there's no progress as a human race. Again, we still have war. So, effective rehabilitation is to question what we believe. When that happens, everyone gets out of prison.

Byron Katie

#2. In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast stretches yet to be covered before the prison becomes, if it ever does, an institution for the reclamation and rehabilitation of erring and unfortunate men and women.

Eugene V. Debs

#3. Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.

John Lennon

#4. We call our system the Department of Corrections, or simply Corrections, but correcting or any notion of rehabilitation has been largely thrown to the wayside in favor of punitive action through the revocation of selfhood.

Erika Camplin

#5. Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#6. But the point of using the number was to show that sex was a great part of my life as basketball was a great part of my life. That's the reason why I was single.

Wilt Chamberlain

#7. I have slightly less than 60 miles to go, and I'm going slightly faster than 60 miles per hour. I should arrive in a bad mood.

Jarod Kintz

#8. If you have something you do that's unique, you just end up in situations. Your art can take you to places without you working too hard to force something to happen.

Reggie Watts

#9. You break me the hardest,
make me the strongest, and keep me
the softest.

Coco J. Ginger

#10. I think in Mrs. C, I certainly played myself. A very compulsive, sweet person.

Marion Ross

#11. I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell.

Lee Tergesen

#12. Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the power of resistance

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. It ends up with everybody at this long dinner table laughing their asses off because the great Dane comes in with a bunch of puppies. Everybody thought it was a male , I suppose, or some goddam thing. All I can say is, don't see it if you don't want to puke all over yourself.

J.D. Salinger

#14. Because, Mr.. Katagiri, Tokyo can only be saved by a person like you. And it's for people like you that I am trying to save Tokyo.

Haruki Murakami