Quotes

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

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

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

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

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

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

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

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

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

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

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

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

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

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

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.

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.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

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