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prisons
«He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.»
«Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo-obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.»
Author: Angela Davis
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convert, designed, jailed, jails, keepers, obedient, population, populations, prisons, specimen, specimens, to each other, zoo, zoos
«Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.»
Author: Georges Bataille
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give vent, madmen, overturn, overturned, overturning, prisons, rage, vent, vents, wander
«Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?»
Author: Peter Kropotkin
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enclose, enclosed, encloses, enclosing, globe, prisons, The Globe, universities
«[The prisons are] the monuments of Australia-the Paestums [of] an extraordinary time-an effort to exile en masse a whole class.»
«Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.»
Author: Horace Mann
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complement, complemented, complements, former, jails, latter, prisons, schools
«But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.»
«Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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asylums, Bad Taste, baron, Barons, brutal, chow, cinema, colonization, condom, condoms, demagogy, electric, electric chair, engines, etc., etc, famine, floods, gangster, gangsters, gonorrhea, guillotine, horse racing, infanticide, lunatic, machines, perversion, perversions, poodle, poodles, poodle dog, prisons, prostitution, quackery, race horse, racing, reformatories, reformatory, revolutions, sabotage, Siamese, strikes, suicides, syphilis, wages
