Quotes

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 worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

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

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

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.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

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

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

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.

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

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

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

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.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

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

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.