Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2001-11-30 Nov 30, 2001[The prison guards are] capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.~ Jean HarrisI can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.~ Jimmy Hoffa Nov 29, 2001Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.~ Phil OchsThis world is the prison of the believers and the paradise of the unbelievers.~ Islamic Proverb Nov 28, 2001In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I didn't speak up because I was a protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak for me.~ Reverend Martin Niemoeller Nov 27, 2001Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.~ Ambrose BierceOptimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.~ Ambrose Bierce Nov 26, 2001It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.~ Edmund BurkeNo passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.~ Edmund Burke Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print