You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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 idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
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.
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.
I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
