When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
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.
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
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.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
