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.
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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.
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.
I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was.
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.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
