Quotes

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

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

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.

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

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

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

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

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

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

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

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.