Quotes

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

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

No man should be judge in his own case.

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

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

Before we can diminish our sufferings from the ill-controlled aggressive assaults of fellow citizens, we must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude. In its place we would seek a comprehensive, constructive social attitude - therapeutic in some instances, restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total social impact. In the last analysis this becomes a question of personal morals and values. No matter how glorified or how piously disguised, vengeance as a human motive must be personally repudiated by each and every one of us.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

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

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

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

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