Quotes

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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

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

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

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

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

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

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.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

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

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

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.