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.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
No crime has been without a precedent.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
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 want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
