I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us,
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
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.
The idea that the sole aim of punishment
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.
Self is the only prison that can bind
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
While crime is punished it yet
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
In prisons, those things withheld from
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
We shall fight against them, throw them
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
If you share the crime of your friend,
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
Civilization is maintained by a very few
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
We shall not yield to violence. We shall
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.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
The difference between tax avoidance and
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
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.
We're in a war. People who blast some
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
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.
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.
Justice is justice though it's always
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
A sick person is a prisoner.
A sick person is a prisoner.
Vices are not crimes.
Vices are not crimes.
