I am not the only one who did not want revenge. Almost all my colleagues in prison did not want revenge, because there is no time to do anything else except to try and save your people.
In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available. . . in America right now.
Convictions are prisons.
A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.
Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.
The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.
That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You’re both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds.
Scapegoating will go on forever. We need someone to blame - illegal immigrants, single moms, people in prison. We need someone to victimize.
I'm feeling pretty good. A lot of people don't know this, but I am not currently in prison, which feels great.
Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!
It hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world’s largest open-air prison.
I have been shown in darkness, light [and] have learned that, even in prison, one can be free.
. . . when a wife wouldn't testify, little punishment was meted out. Alex came to understand that only those who pressed charges ever became truly free, because the life they were leading was a prison, even if most of them wouldn't admit it.
You shouldn't have a profit motivation to fill prison cells with young Americans.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
I wouldn't choose conscientious objector and I wouldn't go to Canada. I did what Hap did and almost went to prison. I think the threw me a bone as the war was winding down, and I think they accepted my sincerity for being against that war.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the principal form of punishment in a capitalist society.
One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics. . . Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.
If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.