To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
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.
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Vices are not crimes.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
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.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
