Quotes

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

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

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

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.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

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.

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

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

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.

Justice renders to every one his due.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

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.

There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.

A sick person is a prisoner.

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.