I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
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.
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
