Quotes

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.

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.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

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.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

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

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

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

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.

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

They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!

Vices are not crimes.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

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

No crime has been without a precedent.