Quotes

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.

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

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

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

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

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

No man should be judge in his own case.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

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.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

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

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

While crime is punished it yet increases.

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

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.