Quotes

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

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.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

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

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?

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.

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

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

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

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.”