Quotes

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”

There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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.

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.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

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

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

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

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

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.