A country is in a bad state, which is
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
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.
In a civilized society, all crimes are
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
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.
When it comes to freedom, we are but
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
The power of punishment is to silence,
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
Reality becomes a prison to those who
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to
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 common argument that crime is caused
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
I have never been contained except I
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
Assassination is the extreme form of
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
He who opens a school door, closes a
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
The solution to our drug problem is not
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
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.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
While we have prisons it matters little
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
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.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
Money will determine whether the accused
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
