Quotes

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

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.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

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

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

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

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

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

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

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

No man should be judge in his own case.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.