Quotes

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

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

I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

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.

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

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.

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.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

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

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

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!

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

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

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.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

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