No matter how you seem to fatten on a
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
One crime has to be concealed by
One crime has to be concealed by another.
If we look at Houston, which is a very
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
Definition, rationality, and structure
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
Fear can be like a prison. It is,
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.
The refined punishments of the spiritual
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison,
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
Liberty is rendered even more precious
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
Most people fancy themselves innocent of
Wherever any one is against his will,
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
He had drawn many a thousand of these
He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
I don't like being famous - it is like a
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
They took away my money, my family, and
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!
He who does not prevent a crime when he
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
I submit that an individual who breaks a
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.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
The world is a prison in which solitary
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
A Sunday school is a prison in which
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
