The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
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.
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Vices are not crimes.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
A sick person is a prisoner.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
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.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
