Quotes

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

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

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.

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

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

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

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

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

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

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

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

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

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.

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

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

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.

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