Quotes

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

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

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

Man is condemned to be free.

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.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

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

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

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

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

A sick person is a prisoner.

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

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.