Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
No man should be judge in his own case.
Man is condemned to be free.
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
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.
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.
