the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept.

Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.

I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused by a natural urge in men to fight, that ownership of land and factories is not necessarily the natural reward of greater wisdom and energy.

Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening.

In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an assist from the ever-watchful media, and may or may not eventually filter down to the poor.

the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.