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.
No crime has been without a precedent.
No crime has been without a precedent.
The world is a prison in which solitary
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
There is no greater punishment of
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
In the halls of justice, the only
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
While we have prisons it matters little
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
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.
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.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
If we were brought to trial for the
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
The public have more interest in the
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
Definition, rationality, and structure
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
We shall fight against them, throw them
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
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.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
Laws do not persuade just because they
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of
Punishment, that is the justice for the
Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.
If you want total security, go to
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.
When the Nazis came for the communists,
When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
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!
