85 Detention Quotes
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Famous Detention Quotes
The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. — Spiro T. Agnew
I was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when Egypt's state security was rounding people up in unprecedented numbers. — Maajid Nawaz
A day in prison is longer than a thousand years at large. — Vietnamese Proverbs
Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on Terrorism. — Jim Ryun
We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended. — Harry Belafonte
Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted. — Larry Flynt
Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems. — Angela Davis
Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it's interesting. — Alain Robert
The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient — Aron Nimzowitsch
The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias. — Loretta Lynch
Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead. — Jack Kevorkian
I spent two months in a jail once. In a Mexican border town. — Dean Ambrose
You can arrest me, but you can't arrest my ideas. — Julius Malema
The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation. — Tom Tancredo
Security without liberty is called prison. — Benjamin Franklin
Short Detention Quotes
- It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war. — Leonid Brezhnev
- Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving? — Ronald Reagan
- I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor. — Miriam Defensor Santiago
- During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon. — Ai Weiwei
- I used to spend every morning in detention at my old school. — Jake Lloyd
- I was in detention a lot. — Jake Lloyd
- I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once. — Amanda Holden
- There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention. — Robert Bourassa
- "All roads lead there child. You should know that." "Detention?" — Rick Riordan
School Detention Quotes
I was something of a prankster. One time I put a ski mask on my head and used a fake gun on the school secretary so that I could get some of my friends out of detention. — Luke Perry
With no adequate role to play as consumers, many youth are now considered disposable, forced to inhabit "zones of social abandonment" extending from homeless shelters and bad schools to bulging detention centers and prisons. — Henry Giroux
When I left I got an award for being the latest person in the history of the school. If you got three late marks for being over fifteen minutes late you’d get an after school detention. I got something like 257 marks. And I only lived about ten minutes away. — Matthew Bellamy
I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope. — Adam Rapp
Public school is a place of detention for children placed in the care of teachers who are afraid of the principal, principals who are afraid of the school board, school boards who are afraid of the parents, parents who are afraid of the children, and children who are afraid of nobody. — Unknown
At 11, 12 I thought I was clumsy, ugly, a mess, an unappealing person, but I did have the gift of the gab. I had the school record at Haberdashers for consecutive detentions for simply speaking out of turn. — Simon Schama
Detente Quotes
Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table. — Leonid Brezhnev
We are entirely for the idea that Europe shall be free from nuclear weapons, from medium-range weapons as well as tactical weapons. That would be a real zero option. — Leonid Brezhnev
Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration from within. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country. — Daniel Ellsberg
I'm just some irritating, lying, ginger kid from Cornwall who should have been locked up in some youth detention centre. I just managed to escape and blag it into music. — Aphex Twin
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war. — Golda Meir
My detention has been worth every second if only to prove my innocence to those who truly matter most my countrymen. — Joseph Estrada
Contrary to what certain governments say, human rights are universal. Arbitrary detention, torture and discrimination hurt the human dignity of anybody, whatever his or her country of origin, religion, descent, or any other ground. — Shirin Ebadi
And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril. — Jeane Kirkpatrick
We let off a Dungbomb in the corridor and it upset him for some reason—" "So he hauled us off to his office and started threatening us with the usual—" "—detention—" "—disembowelment— — J. K. Rowling
People Writing About Detention
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Jake Lloyd |
10 | 12 |
 Spiro T. Agnew |
50 | 858 |
 Maajid Nawaz |
148 | 87 |
 Vietnamese Proverbs |
114 | 1 |
 Jim Ryun |
26 | 769 |
 Harry Belafonte |
74 | 899 |
More Detention Quotes
I have to say I'm all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with are the juvenile delinquents, a lot of whom consider it a badge of honor to be sent to juvenile detention. And it might not be such a cool thing in the 'hood to be flogged publicly. — Ann Coulter
We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer. — Hunter S. Thompson
This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were freed, were not, as some assumed, inflicted methodically, but were excesses committed by individual prison guards, their deputies, and men who laid violent hands on the detainees. — Rudolf Hoss
[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic and entire system of social control, by the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats through every mind for the course of its lifetime. — Kate Millett
Little kids' minds are very, very strong. They bend. There's a lot of tensile strength and they don't break. We start our kids off on things like "Hansel and Gretel," which features child abandonment, kidnapping, attempted murder, forcible detention, cannibalism, and finally murder by cremation. And the kids love it. — Stephen King
With a television show, it's about fighting to get it on the screen every week. It's like going into battle, and you have to fight these fights. Some are big fights, some are skirmishes, some you can come to detente on, but it's always a fight. — Alfred Gough
Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first - forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates them. — Rob Sheffield
In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente. — Jeane Kirkpatrick
You get taken in, and they give you a jumpsuit, which are a lot more comfortable than you'd think. It depends on where you go - what floor or what cellblock. For me, you go in, and you're just in with a bunch of other people who are in serving their time. You're just in there. It's just boring. You're in detention, essentially. — Jayson Werth
Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs. — John Yoo
I wrote my first rhymes around 8th grade. After serving a year in juvenile detention, I decided to pursue my career as an artist. — Yukmouth
The United States has been ambiguous on the current situation in Nepal. They have not actually come out very strongly in terms of pushing the king to take measures on the detentions or abuses by the army. China continues to provide military equipment. — Irene Khan
Do you know what I think, Potter?' said Snape, very quietly. "I think that you are a liar and a cheat and that you deserve detention with me every Saturday until the end of term. What do you think, Potter? — J. K. Rowling
President Obama and Hillary Clinton support sanctuary cities. They support catch and release on the border. They support visa overstays. They support the release of dangerous, dangerous, dangerous, criminals from detention. And, they support unconstitutional executive amnesty. — Donald Trump
We who advocate peace are becoming an irrelevance when we speak peace. The government speaks rubber bullets, live bullets, tear gas, police dogs, detention, and death. — Desmond Tutu
I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off. — Maggie Grace
My Administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens. Indeed, I believe that doing so would break with our most important traditions and values as a Nation. — Barack Obama
Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since it functions with inattention, it is often without memory. It is a flight from out of the real that does not always find a consistent unreal world. — Gaston Bachelard
One of the saddest and most damaging legacies of the [George W.] Bush administration is the increased assertion of the "state secrets" privilege, which kept organizations like the ACLU - which had cases of people who had actually been tortured and held in indefinite detention - from getting their day in court. — Edward Snowden
It is reasonable to insist that when the government deprives a person of his or her liberty? and in this case for an indefinite period of time? that the individual have a meaningful opportunity to challenge the legality of their detention and challenge whether they are being wrongfully detained. — Jeff Bingaman
Veronica ran out to tell Amber the shocking news - and returned in less than a minute with another message for Yo-Yoji: "Amber says she was watching and she knows you got in detention on purpose," she said breathlessly. "Because you have a crush on Cass!" Cass's ears instantly turned red. Max-Ernest looked like he'd been hit by a truck. — Pseudonymous Bosch
The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the West Coast to inland detention camps on grounds that they might be disloyal. — Helen Thomas
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