Quotes

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

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 punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

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

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

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.

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

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

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

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

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

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

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

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 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.