By noiselessly going to a prison a
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
It is not at the table, but in prison,
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where
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.
We shall not yield to violence. We shall
We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.
I wrote a million words in the first
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
Justice is justice though it's always
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
What restrains us from killing is partly
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.
On a planet that increasingly resembles
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
No man should be judge in his own case.
No man should be judge in his own case.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
The uneven impact of actual enforcement
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.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
So justice while she winks at crimes,
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Every instance of a man's suffering the
Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Self is the only prison that can bind
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
I have been studying how I may compare
I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.
We shall fight against them, throw them
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Justice renders to every one his due.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
