Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
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.
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
Vices are not crimes.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
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.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
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.
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!
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
