Quotes

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

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

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

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

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

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

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

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

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

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

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

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

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

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

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.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

While crime is punished it yet increases.