Quotes

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

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.

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.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

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

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

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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

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.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

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.