To be in prison so long, it's difficult
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
To seek the redress of grievances by
To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
Definition, rationality, and structure
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
There are dreadful punishments enacted
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.
I am certain that nothing has done so
I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
On a planet that increasingly resembles
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
Here the great art lies, to discern in
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
A Sunday school is a prison in which
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
I wrote a million words in the first
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
How dreadful it is when the right judge
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
The common argument that crime is caused
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
There are few better measures of the
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
Fear can be like a prison. It is,
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.
The uneven impact of actual enforcement
The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
Reality becomes a prison to those who
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Justice renders to every one his due.
It is not at the table, but in prison,
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
We who live in prison, and in whose
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
The difference between tax avoidance and
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
I know not whether laws be right, or
I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
