Quotes

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

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

Justice renders to every one his due.

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.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

Vices are not crimes.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

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.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

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

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

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.”

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

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

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.

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.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

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