Well does Heaven have care that no man
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
There is no greater punishment of
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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.
He had drawn many a thousand of these
He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
The torment of human frustration,
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.
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.
Two men look out the same prison bars;
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
The world itself is but a large prison,
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
The punishment can be remitted; the
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
Let us remember that justice must be
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
We have initiated programs for re-entry
We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.
Our task must be to free ourselves from
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
It is true you cannot eat freedom and
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.
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.
The world is a prison in which solitary
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
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.
They're not supposed to show prison
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
Justice is justice though it's always
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
I was put into jail as I was going to
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.
When it comes to freedom, we are but
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
One man meets an infamous punishment for
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
