Self is the only prison that can bind
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
We judge ourselves by what we feel
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
It is the spirit and not the form of law
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
History is full of people who went to
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
Let us remember that justice must be
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
Well does Heaven have care that no man
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Justice is justice though it's always
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
The refined punishments of the spiritual
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
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.
If you share the crime of your friend,
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
The contagion of crime is like that of
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.
I was put into jail as I was going to
I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
A Sunday school is a prison in which
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
They're not supposed to show prison
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
No man survives when freedom fails. The
No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.
Adversities such as being homeless and
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
