Quotes

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

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

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.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

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

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

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.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

No crime has been without a precedent.

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.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

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