A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
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.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
Man is condemned to be free.
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.
