Quotes

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

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

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

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

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.

A sick person is a prisoner.

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

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

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

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

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

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.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

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

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

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

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.