Quotes

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

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

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

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.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

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

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

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!

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

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

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

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

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.