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.
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.
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
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.
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
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.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
