The world is a prison in which solitary
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Taught from infancy that beauty is
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 sometimes wish that people would put a
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
A sick person is a prisoner.
A sick person is a prisoner.
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.
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
While crime is punished it yet
While crime is punished it yet increases.
The English laws punish vice; the
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
Three hundred years ago a prisoner
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.”
We have our own system, ... and
We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.
Assassination is the extreme form of
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
The power of punishment is to silence,
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
Two men look out the same prison bars;
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
Laws do not persuade just because they
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
I can work for the Lord in or out of
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
Federal prison, if you get any of it,
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.
I have been studying how I may compare
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.
