Quotes

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

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

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

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

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

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

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

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.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

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

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

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.

A sick person is a prisoner.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

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

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