Society is an insane
Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates. Erving Goffman
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Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates. Erving Goffman
The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers. Eric Schlosser
Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another. E. M. Forster
For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable terror that I deteriorated into a wild, frightened creature intent only on survival. And I survived. I was raped by orderlies, gnawed on by rats and poisoned by tainted food. I was chained … Read more
In Puppies Behind Bars, when the puppy is eight weeks old it is given to an inmate. The inmate is responsible for the dog. Doris Roberts
The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor’s badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully. Deepak Chopra
Challenging schools to treat their students as customers with a choice, instead of inmates serving time. David Warlick
I vote Democrat because I’m not concerned about millions of babies being aborted so long as we keep all death row inmates alive and comfy. David Letterman
I would have been content with still playing Inmate #1. I worked on every prison movie made, from 1985 to 1991. I would go from movie to movie to movie. Danny Trejo
The first five years of my career, I was Inmate #1, Bad Guy #1 and Mean Guy #1. I had a great career going, until somebody told me that I was typecast. I said, Well, what’s typecast? And they said, Well, you’re always playing the mean Chicano dude with tattoos. I thought about that and … Read more