I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.
Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they’ll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
