Quotes

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

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

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.

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

No man should be judge in his own case.

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.

Man is condemned to be free.

It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

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

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

Justice renders to every one his due.

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

No crime has been without a precedent.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

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

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.