Quotes

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

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

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

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

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

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

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

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

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

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

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

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

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.