Quotes

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

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

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

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

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

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

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.

Vices are not crimes.

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.