Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

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

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

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

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.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

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

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

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.

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!

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

A sick person is a prisoner.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

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

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

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

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

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