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I don't like jail. They got the wrong kind of bars in there.

—Charles Bukowski

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A cage went in search of a bird.

—Franz Kafka

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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. . . . It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.

—Clarence Darrow

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We live in a country that is addicted to incarceration as a tool for social control. As it stands now, justice systems are extremely expensive, do not rehabilitate but in fact make the people that experience them worse, and have no evidence-based correlatives to reducing crime. Yet with that track record they continue to thrive. . . . Only an addict would see that as an OK result.

—James Bell

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The county jail looked like a tall, forbidding elementary school. Seven stories of dirty-brown brick, one hundred years old and now operating at 330 percent of capacity.

—Richard Price

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The central question is whether the wonderfully diverse and gifted assemblage of human beings on this earth really knows how to run a civilization.

—Adlai Stevenson

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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

—Leo Tolstoy

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A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful — while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. Which is the best man to deal with — he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?

—Henry David Thoreau

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All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority, belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are "sides," and it is necessary for one side to beat another side, and of the utmost importance to walk up to a platform and receive from the hands of the headmaster himself a highly ornamental pot. As people mature they cease to believe in sides or in headmasters or in highly ornamental pots.

—Virginia Woolf

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A sobering thought . . . : What if, right at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

—Jane Wagner

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In the latter part of his career, Spanish violinist Pablo de Sarasate received a visit from a famous music critic who acclaimed him as a genius. . . . "A genius!" Sarasate said. "For thirty-seven years I've practiced fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!

—Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

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All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.

—Cher

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The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go, "Hey, I'm Vine Man.

—Jack Handey

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Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.

—Calvin Trillin

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