Quotes

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

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

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

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 have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

No man should be judge in his own case.

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

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

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

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

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

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.