Quotes

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

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.

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

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!

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.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

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

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

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

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

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

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.