Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
Man is condemned to be free.
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!
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
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.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
