Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
And while God had work for Paul, he
And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.
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.
Fast closed with double grills
Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.
Assassination is the extreme form of
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
The world itself is but a large prison,
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
I don't like being famous - it is like a
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
The public have more interest in the
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
He who opens a school door, closes a
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Faults of the head are punished in this
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.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature,
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
The refined punishments of the spiritual
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
Before we can diminish our sufferings
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.
I never told a victim story about my
I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
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.
So justice while she winks at crimes,
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Two men look out the same prison bars;
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
I existed in a world that never is - the
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Self is the only prison that can bind
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
I asked a man in prison once how he
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
