A Quote by Peter Kropotkin

Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.

Peter Kropotkin

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Crime Maintained Prisons State Universities

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Peter Kropotkin
Russian - Revolutionary
December 9, 1842 - February 8, 1921

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.

Tom Hayden

Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build

Talib Kweli

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?

Peter Kropotkin

Prisons are the universities of the opposition.

Janusz Korwin-Mikke

We talk about civilization as though it's a static state. There are no civilized people yet, it's a process that's constantly going on... As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.

Jacque Fresco

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

H. G. Wells

If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political crime. A political crime, in legal terms, is defined as any crime against a state, as opposed to against an individual. Assassination, for example, is not a political crime because you've killed a person, an individual, and they've been harmed; their family's been harmed. But the state itself, you can't be extradited for harming it.

Edward Snowden

Defenders of the status quo will often try to mislead the public by saying, "Just look at our state prisons: nearly half of the inmates are violent offenders. This system is about protecting the public from violent crime." This type of statement is highly misleading.

Michelle Alexander

We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prisons: we need to take this online as well.

Maajid Nawaz

I believe prisons have emerged as a new frontline in the fight against crime. The fact is, new technology and sophisticated approaches mean that prison walls alone are no longer effective in stopping crime – inside or outside of prison.

David Gauke

The question eventually must be raised: Is it a criminal offense to take the name of the Lord in vain? When people curse their parents, it unquestionably is a capital crime (Ex. 21:17). The son or daughter is under the lawful jurisdiction of the family. The integrity of the family must be maintained by the threat of death. Clearly, cursing God (blasphemy) is a comparable crime, and is therefore a capital crime (Lev. 24:16).

Gary North

Many university presidents assume the language and behavior of CEOs and in doing so they are completely reneging on the public mission of the universities. The state is radically defunding public universities and university presidents, for the most part, rather than defending higher education as a public good, are trying to privatize their institutions in order to remove them from the political control of state governments. This is not a worthy or productive strategy.

Henry Giroux

The fact is that, in all prisons everywhere, cruelties on the one hand and injudicious laxity of discipline on the other have at times appeared and will, at intervals, be renewed except the most vigilant oversight is maintained.

Dorothea Dix

As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.

Jacque Fresco

I've worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant education offices, continuation high schools, juvenile halls, prisons, and gifted classrooms.