Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
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.
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
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.
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.
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.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
