Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
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.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
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.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
