Quotes

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

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.

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.

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

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

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

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

He who profits by a crime commits it.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

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

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.