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.
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.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
No crime has been without a precedent.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.
