Quotes

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

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

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

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.

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

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

Justice renders to every one his due.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

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

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

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

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

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

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.

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

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

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

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

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!

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.

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

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.