If we went back
If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early ’70s, something like four out of five people employed in the prison industry would lose their jobs. That’s what you’re up against. Eugene Jarecki
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If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early ’70s, something like four out of five people employed in the prison industry would lose their jobs. That’s what you’re up against. Eugene Jarecki
Marijuana gives rise to insanity — not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the possessor of a single joint to life imprisonment without parole but sets a murderer free after perhaps six years is in the grips of a deep psychosis. Eric Schlosser
We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid. Epictetus
Being desirous of allaying the dissensions of party strife now existing within our realm, I do hereby dissolve and abolish the Democratic and Republican parties, and also do hereby decree the disfranchisement and imprisonment, for not more than 10, nor less than five, years, to all persons leading to any violation of this our imperial … Read more
Communism which feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men’s minds and souls shall not take root in the United States. Emanuel Celler
No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment. Elizabeth I
When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells. Elizabeth Fry
All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun’s cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people. Edna O’Brien
I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier. Fritz Sauckel
In a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead styles… Contemporary or postmodernist art… will involve the necessary failure of art and the aesthetic, the failure of the new, the imprisonment in the past. Fredric Jameson