Quotes

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

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

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

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.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

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

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.

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

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

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

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

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

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.

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

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

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.