Quotes

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

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

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

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

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

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

No man should be judge in his own case.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

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.

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

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

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

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

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

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

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.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.