A sick person is a prisoner.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
We are prisoners of ideas.
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
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.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they’ll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Vices are not crimes.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
