Quotes

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

Man is condemned to be free.

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

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.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

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.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.