Quotes

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

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

We are prisoners of ideas.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

No crime has been without a precedent.

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

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

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.

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

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.

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

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

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

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

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

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

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.

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

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.