Quotes

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.

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!

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

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

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

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

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

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

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

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

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

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

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

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.