Quotes

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

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

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.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

Vices are not crimes.

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.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.