Quotes

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

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

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

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

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.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

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.

We are prisoners of ideas.

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

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

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

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

A sick person is a prisoner.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.