Quotes

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

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.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

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.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

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.

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

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.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

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

I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.

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

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

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

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

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

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.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.