Quotes

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!

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

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

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

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.

Man is condemned to be free.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

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

He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

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.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

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.

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

One crime has to be concealed by another.

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

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

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

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

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.