Quotes

Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.

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

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

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.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

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.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

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.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

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.

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.

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

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

A sick person is a prisoner.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

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

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.