A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
Fast closed with double grills And triple gates–the cell To wicked souls is hell; But to a mind that's innocent 'Tis only iron, wood and stone.
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
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.
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
