We are prisoners of ideas.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.
We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.
To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
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
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
