Quotes

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

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

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.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

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

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

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

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

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

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

He who profits by a crime commits it.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

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.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

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

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

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.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

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

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.