Quotes

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

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

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

I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was. I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.

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

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

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

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

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

Crimes generally punish themselves.

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.

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

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.

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.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

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