Quotes

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

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

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

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

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.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

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

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

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.

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

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

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

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.