It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Justice renders to every one his due.
He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.
