Quotes

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

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

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

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

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.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

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

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

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

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

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.