Quotes

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

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.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

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.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

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

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

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

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

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

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

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.

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

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

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.

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