toseegrey:amorphousd:(via ozobsessed)

“So, what have we learned? What’s the lesson for today? For all the never-ending days and restless nights in Oz? That morality is transient? That virtue cannot exist without violence? That to be honest is to be flawed? That the giving and taking of love both debases and elevates us? That God or Allah or Yahweh has answers to questions we dare not even ask? The story is simple: a man lives in prison and dies. How he dies? That’s easy. The who and the why is the complex part. The human part. The only part worth knowing… Peace.”

Augustus Hill

Hill: A bunch of men sit in cells on the brink of a new year, a new century, a new millenium. A thousand years. They stare into the future and all they see is themselves in those same cells. Black or white, here we are on the precipice. We either hang on or we fall off. Together, or separately. It’s our choice. It’s up to us. It’s up to you and me. Happy New Year!

(via routinemalaise)

Hill: You gotta take him to ER!
Vahue: Hill, I go out there, they gonna kick my fucking ass.
Hill: They gonna be kicking our asses anyway, brother.
Vahue: No way. This ain’t my fault, Hill. He is definitely not my problem, man. I did not start all this shit, Hill!
Hill: What difference does it make, huh? Look, you think ‘cause of who you are you can pick and choose when to take responsibility. You can’t. Sometimes you gotta step up. All right? Look at him! Look at him! Dobbins and that cello, that’s all he had, man. That’s like me and my chair. That’s who he was. That’s like you and basketball.

Oz S01E08, A Game of Checkers

“Napoleon’s final defeat came at Waterloo. Must’ve been embarrassing.You’re the fucking emperor. You conquered Europe…only to lose in a place with a stupid name like Waterloo…or Watergate, or Whitewater. Note to politicians: Stay on land.”

Oz. The name on the street for the Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary. Only, big news: They’ve changed the name. It’s now called the Oswald State Correctional Facility, level four. I don’t know what the difference is. Leo Glynn is still warden, Sister Peter Marie is still in psych, Tim McManus is still unit manager of Emerald City, and I know for damn sure none of us have changed.

Oz, S03E01 “The Truth and Nothing But” Opening Scene