Quotes

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

Man is condemned to be free.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

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

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

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.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

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

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

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.

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

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

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.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

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

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

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

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.

Justice renders to every one his due.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.