Quotes

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

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

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

No crime has been without a precedent.

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

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

Justice renders to every one his due.

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

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.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

Man is condemned to be free.

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

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

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

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

In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

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

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

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

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?