"Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted."
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"Why, when God's world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places?"
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"He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss"
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"The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode."
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"The most anxious man in a prison is the governor."
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"As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again."
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"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."
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"as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape."
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"The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable."
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"In prison, illusions can offer comfort."
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"Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest."
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"A beane in liberty is better then a comfit in prison."
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"If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to prison because I will kill him."
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"One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics"
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"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."
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"That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone."
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"What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few."
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"Hate put me in prison. Love's gonna bust me out."
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"Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison."
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"I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons."
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