Source: The Path to Enlightenment is not a Highway, 1996, p.4
“So maybe I'll spend some years in prison, but you'll have a big head start on me in hell!”
Source: Invisible Monsters
"You Want It Darker"
You Want It Darker (2016)
“The world itself is but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.”
Supposed to have been said by Raleigh to his friends as he was being taken to prison, on the day before his execution (William Stebbing Sir Walter Raleigh (1891), chapter 30)
Attributed
“All of us are prisoners, to one degree or another, of our experience.”
Source: Competing for the Future, 1996, p. 54
Context: Acquired through business schools and other educational experiences and from consultants and management gurus, absorbed from peers and the business press, and formed out of career experiences, a manager's genetic coding establishes the range and likelihood of responses in particular situations.... All of us are prisoners, to one degree or another, of our experience.
“Let us be clear. Prison works.”
It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted to commit crime think twice.
Colin Brown, "Howard seeks to placate 'angry majority'", The Independent, October 7, 1993
Speech to the Conservative Party conference, October 6, 1993
Lord Kiely and Major General Arthur Wellesley, p. 218
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Battle (1995)
