Quotes

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.

Vices are not crimes.

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

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

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

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.

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

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

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

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

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

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

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

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

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.

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

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.