“All people look better under arrest.”
Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
John Waters 37
American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer 1946Related quotes
“Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.”
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Are you going to put me under house arrest or put me on Robben Island?”
As quoted in Helen Suzman: Fighter for Human Rights https://web.archive.org/web/20160303201816/http://hsf.org.za/about-us/helen-suzman/suz01.pdf (2005), by Millie Pimstone, South Africa: The Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies
1960s
Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the 1980s (1983).
“People under pressure don’t work better; they just work faster.”
Source: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (1987), p. 18.
Independence Day speech (1828)
Context: Where men then are free to consult experience they will correct their practice, and make changes for the better. It follows, therefore, that the more free men are, the more changes they will make. In the beginning, possibly, for the worse; but most certainly in time for the better; until their knowledge enlarging by observation, and their judgment strengthening by exercise, they will find themselves in the straight, broad, fair road of improvement. Out of change, therefore, springs improvement; and the people who shall have imagined a peaceable mode of changing their institutions, hold a surety for their melioration. This surety is worth all other excellences. Better were the prospects of a people under the influence of the worst government who should hold the power of changing it, that those of a people under the best who should hold no such power. Here, then is the great beauty of American government.