Quotes

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

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

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

The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

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.

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.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

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.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

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.

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

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

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

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

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

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

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