Quotes

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.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

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

One crime is everything; two nothing.

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

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

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.

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

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

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

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

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

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.