Quotes

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.

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

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

We are prisoners of ideas.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

A sick person is a prisoner.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

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

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

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

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

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?