I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.
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.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
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.
We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
