Quotes

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.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

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

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

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

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.

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.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

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

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

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

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

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

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.

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

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.