Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
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.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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.
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
While crime is punished it yet increases.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
No man should be judge in his own case.
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
