Quotes

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

A sick person is a prisoner.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

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.

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 variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.