Bitter Quote by L. Frank Baum

“How can a prisoner understand their punishment to have been worthwhile to anyone, when it's dealt in a way so offhand and indifferent?”

— Piper Kerman

“The misfortune we sometimes view as punishment is really just the natural result of our poor judgment; but it is easier for us to…

— Debbie Gilliland

One of the frustrations of prison life, which is also one of its intended consequences, is that the prisoner is made ineffective. He is…

— Hisham Matar

“Apart from the moral deformity resulting from the sudden release of mental pressure, there were two other fundamental experiences which threatened to damage the…

— Viktor E. Frankl

We wish to be treated 'not as ordinary prisoners,' for we are not criminals. We admit no crime - unless, that is, the love…

— Bobby Sands

The essence of justice is mercy. Making a child suffer for wrong-doing is merciful to the child. There is no mercy in letting the…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

“The cruel man is of misanthropic temperament, and is a man of moods, oscillating from quiet brooding to sudden explosions. If a man like…

— Frederick the Great

“Many individuals are so constituted that their only thought is to obtain pleasure and shun responsibility. They would like, butterfly-like, to wing forever in…

— Theodore Dreiser

“This man, of a nature too humane for his situation, was become wretched in it, and he determined mined to escape from his office…

— Ann Radcliffe

People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a…

— Antony Starr

“The world, being in the constant commission of vast quantities of injustice, is a little too apt to comfort itself with the idea that…

— Charles Dickens