Justice renders to every one his due.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
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.
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.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
While crime is punished it yet increases.
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.
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.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
