Quotes

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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

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

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

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

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.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

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

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

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

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.

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.

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.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.