Quotes

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.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

I have never been contained except I made the 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.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

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

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.

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

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.

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

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.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

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

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.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

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

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.