Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
We are prisoners of ideas.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
A sick person is a prisoner.
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.
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
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.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
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.
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
