Quotes

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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.

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

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

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

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

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

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.

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

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

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

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.

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

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

The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.

One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

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