Quotes

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

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

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

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

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

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or 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.

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

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.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

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

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!

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 number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

A sick person is a prisoner.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.