Quotes

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.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Justice renders to every one his due.

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

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.

There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

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.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

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

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

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

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.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

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

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

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

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

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.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.