Quotes

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!

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

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

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

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

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.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

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

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

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

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

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.