Quotes

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

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.

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

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

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

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

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

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

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

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

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.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

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

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.