Quotes

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

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

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

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

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!

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

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.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

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

While crime is punished it yet increases.

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.

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.

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.