Quotes

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

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

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

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

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.

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

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

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.

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.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

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

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

We are prisoners of ideas.

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.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.