Quotes

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.

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

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

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

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

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

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

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

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

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

I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

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

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

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

In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism.

No crime has been without a precedent.

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

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.