"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."

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Source : Angela Davis: An Autobiography ch. 1 (1974)

Angela Davis

#Zoos Quotes #Jail Quotes #Population Quotes

“The only time Republicans will shake fists and point fingers is over a war delayed, one that isn't led by the US, or a war waged without the necessary conviction (read collateral damage).”
“Guns, double-crosses, hitmen... I can get used to a lot of things, but I'm never going to get used to sleeping where apocalypse bugs mate,â€ Wednesday said, walking into the room looking around. She dropped her Birkin on the floor and heard something scuttling behind the cheap plastic wood print veneer covered dresser. She turned to face Alvin, her head cocked to the side. â€œSeriously. I'm not saying five-star... I'm saying go on Expedia and find a place that actually has stars... any stars.”
“Love is a publicity stunt, and making love, after the first curious raptures, is only another petulant way to pass the time waiting for the studio to call.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The Talmud: Heart's Blood of the Jewish Faith...”
“For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.”
“The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams.”
“You lie. Worse, you lie poorly.”
“Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because my first love was tennis.”

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