Quotes

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.

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

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

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.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

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.

No man should be judge in his own case.

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

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

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.

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

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

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

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

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

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.