Quotes

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

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

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

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

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

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

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 virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

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

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

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

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

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.

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!

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

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

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.