Quotes

Vices are not crimes.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

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

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

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

Man is condemned to be free.

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.

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

No man should be judge in his own case.

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

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.

They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!

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

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.

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!

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

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

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.