Quotes

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.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

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

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

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

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

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

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

The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

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.

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

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.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.

No man should be judge in his own case.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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!

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

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

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.