Quotes

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

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

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

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.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

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 have never been contained except I made the prison.

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

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

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

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

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.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

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

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

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.