Quotes

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.

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

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

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.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

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.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

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

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

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

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.

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.