Quotes

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

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

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

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

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

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

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

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.

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

There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

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

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.

No crime has been without a precedent.