Quotes

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

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

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

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

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

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

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

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

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.

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

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

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

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

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

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.