Most people are prisoners thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present and the present is where everything begins.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse this is not what Americans do these are not our values.

In 1960 when I came out of prison as an ex-convict I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.

Negation is the mind's first freedom yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it adapt it to our needs once acquired it can imprison us.

And why do we who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech allow people to go to prison and be vilified and magazines to be closed down on the spot for suggesting another version of history.

Only free men can negotiate prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

If you want total security go to prison. There you're fed clothed given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you're trying to get a film financed.

When I go back to family reunions everybody goes 'Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!' And I'm like 'Okay I don't know you I have no idea who you are.' I am auntie and cousin for so many and even the ones in prison call me collect. And I'll be like 'Which of my family members are giving you this phone number?'

I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience otherwise why go for it? I have to change me and I have to learn things and I have to push me and my limits. By acting I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.

Racism oppresses its victims but also binds the oppressors who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.

Studies have shown that inmate participation in education vocational and job training prison work skills development drug abuse mental health and other treatment programs all reduce recidivism significantly.

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class race time place background family and even his nation.

But the thing I felt most strongly about and put at the end of one of the prison diaries was education.

Poor people people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

He who opens a school door closes a prison.

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.

I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.

If a dad does his job we don't need prisons we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.