Quotes

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

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

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

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

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.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

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

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

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

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

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

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

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

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.

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 best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.