A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
Man is condemned to be free.
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.