Quotes

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?

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

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

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

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

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

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

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.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

A sick person is a prisoner.

The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.