Quotes

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

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

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.

I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was. I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

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.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

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

Crimes generally punish themselves.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

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.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.