In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
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 being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
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.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
