Quotes

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

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

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.

No man should be judge in his own case.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

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.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

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.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

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

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

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

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.

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

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.