Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
We are prisoners of ideas.
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
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.
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.
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.
While crime is punished it yet increases.
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
