Quotes

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

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

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

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

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

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

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.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

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

I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was. I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

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

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

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

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

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

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.