In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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.
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.
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.
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
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.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
