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.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
Man is condemned to be free.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
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.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
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!
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
