Quotes

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

We are prisoners of ideas.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

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're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

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.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

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.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

Man is condemned to be free.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.