Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
While crime is punished it yet
While crime is punished it yet increases.
It is certain that the study of human
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
Assassination is the extreme form of
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
The severest justice may not always be
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
The worst of prison life, he thought,
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
History is full of people who went to
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
Self is the only prison that can bind
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
I was in prison, and you came unto me.
I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40
It is safer that a bad man should not be
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
One of the many lessons that one learns
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
I am certain that nothing has done so
I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
Man is condemned to be free.
Man is condemned to be free.
There is no peace because the making of
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
I have been studying how I may compare
I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
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.
The English laws punish vice; the
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
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.
There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
A Sunday school is a prison in which
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
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.
If you share the crime of your friend,
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
When it comes to freedom, we are but
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
