History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Justice renders to every one his due.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
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.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.
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.
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
A sick person is a prisoner.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
