Quotes

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

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

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

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 crime has been without a precedent.

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.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

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

Man is condemned to be free.

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

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

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

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

In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism.

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

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

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

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.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.