Quotes

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

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.

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

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

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.

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

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

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

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.

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.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

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

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

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

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.

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

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

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

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.