Quotes

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

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.

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.

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

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.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

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.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

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

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

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.