Quotes

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

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

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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.

No man should be judge in his own case.

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

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

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.

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.

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

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

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

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

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

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

No crime has been without a precedent.

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.

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.