Quotes

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

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose 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.

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

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

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

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

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.”

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

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

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

Justice renders to every one his due.

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

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.