Quotes

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

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

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

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

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

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

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

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

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.

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.

Justice renders to every one his due.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

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

One crime is everything; two nothing.

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

While crime is punished it yet increases.

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

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.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

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

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.