Quotes

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

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

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

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

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

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

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

He who profits by a crime commits it.

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.

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

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.

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!

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

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

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

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

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.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.