Quotes

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

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

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

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

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

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

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

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

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

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.

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

A sick person is a prisoner.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

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

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

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.

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

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

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

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.

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

I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was. I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.