There's no greater threat to our
There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
The world itself is but a large prison,
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
I can work for the Lord in or out of
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
Any punishment that does not correct,
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.
Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
I sometimes wish that people would put a
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
There is no peace because the making of
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
Self is the only prison that can bind
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
There are only two places in the world
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
We don't seem to be able to check crime,
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
The worst of prison life, he thought,
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
Why would anyone expect him to come out
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
So justice while she winks at crimes,
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
No crime has been without a precedent.
No crime has been without a precedent.
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.
Intellectual despair results in neither
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
Wherever any one is against his will,
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
