I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
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.
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.
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.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
Vices are not crimes.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
