Prison Quotes

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

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.

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.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

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

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

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.