Homes Not Jails Quotes & Sayings

This was not a political party. It was an army. The purpose of the display, Lloyd figured, was to give them false authority. They wanted to look as if they had the right to close meetings and empty buildings, to burst into homes and offices and arrest people, to drag them to jails and camps and beat them up, interrogate and torture them, as the Brownshirts did in Germany under the Nazi regime so admired by Mosley and the Daily Mail's proprietor, — Ken Follett

To change the world takes time; to change yourself takes courage. — R.S. Lowel

The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory. — Gilbert Burnet

Dogs will eat till they die. Cats will leave food in the dish, incomprehensible to a dog. — Tim Allen

The decision on whether to ban anyone from the U.K. is made by the home secretary on the basis of the evidence at the time. — Theresa May

Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, andamong youth. I consider any emblem or label a prejudice ... My holy of holies is the human body, health, intellect, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute of freedoms, the freedom from force and falsity in whatever forms they might appear. — Anton Chekhov

The past needs the present and grows the future. — N.M. Singel

They wanted to look as if they had the right to close meetings and empty buildings, to burst into homes and offices and arrest people, to drag them to jails and camps and beat them up, interrogate and torture them, as — Ken Follett

How few women have any history after the age of thirty! — Elizabeth Oakes Smith

Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that. — Thomas Lennon

A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure. — Theodor Adorno

The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking. — Brendan Myers

He says you don't often find angels in places like happy homes and rich people's backyard parties. He says that angels flock to places like hospitals and homelss shelters and jails, because those people realize they need help. And do they are able to believe in strange phenomena. Funny how the world is backward. The really comfortable people don't always see much supernaturally, and to the ones who have to struggle, it's, like, breathing in their faces. The first are last ... and the last are first. — Carol Plum-Ucci

I never met a man I didn't like. — Will Rogers

What I wanted was to blow a hole in the sky, explode a star, let the burning embers scorch me and everything they touched. — Amy Garvey

I'd love to think that people in the future would gather in theatres, at conventions, and in darkened rooms, and read it out to each other. — Neil Gaiman

I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled. — Scott Westerfeld

If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed. — Mignon McLaughlin

He also tried to block the doorway when she left him. My mother ducked under his arm, ran to her car, and drove away. I remember thinking that this was somehow romantic, as it pinpointed the actual memory of my mother's departure, something you don't see a lot of in television. Real people don't slam doors without opening them five minutes later because it's raining and they forgot their umbrella. They don't stop dead in their tracks because they realize they're in love with their best friend.They don't say, "I'm leaving you, Jack," and fade to a paper towel commercial. — Sloane Crosley

A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion. — Alfred Nobel