State Prison

Famous quotes containing the words state and/or prison:

    “Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.”
    —Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

    “If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It’s better to live somehow than not at all.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)