Quotes

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

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

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

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

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

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.

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!

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

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

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

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

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

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

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

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

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

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

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.