Quotes

Man is condemned to be free.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

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

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

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

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.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was. I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

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

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

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

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

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

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

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

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

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.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.