Quotes

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

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.

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

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

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

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

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

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

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

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.

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.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

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

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

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.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.