Quotes

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.

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

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.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

A sick person is a prisoner.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

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

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

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

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

I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.

No man should be judge in his own case.

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

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

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