Quotes

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.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

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.

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

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

A sick person is a prisoner.

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

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

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

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

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

We are prisoners of ideas.

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.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

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

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

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.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.