Quotes

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

Before we can diminish our sufferings from the ill-controlled aggressive assaults of fellow citizens, we must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude. In its place we would seek a comprehensive, constructive social attitude - therapeutic in some instances, restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total social impact. In the last analysis this becomes a question of personal morals and values. No matter how glorified or how piously disguised, vengeance as a human motive must be personally repudiated by each and every one of us.