Adversities such as being homeless and
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
Wherever any one is against his will,
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
Well does Heaven have care that no man
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
And while God had work for Paul, he
And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.
A Sunday school is a prison in which
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
There is no greater punishment of
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
Experts and the educated elite have
Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.
The public have more interest in the
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
We're in a war. People who blast some
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
Fast closed with double grills
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.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
Why would anyone expect him to come out
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
Before we can diminish our sufferings
Before we can diminish our sufferings from the ill-controlled aggressive assaults of fellow citizens, we must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude. In its place we would seek a comprehensive, constructive social attitude - therapeutic in some instances, restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total social impact. In the last analysis this becomes a question of personal morals and values. No matter how glorified or how piously disguised, vengeance as a human motive must be personally repudiated by each and every one of us.
Fear can be like a prison. It is,
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.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Once we are destined to live out our
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
No obligation to justice does force a
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
Man is condemned to be free.
Man is condemned to be free.
No crime has been without a precedent.
No crime has been without a precedent.
