Quotes

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

No crime has been without a precedent.

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

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

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.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!

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

Vices are not crimes.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

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.

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

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

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.