Quotes

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.