A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
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.
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
No man should be judge in his own case.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
I can work for the Lord in or out 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.
I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
