Quotes

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

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

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.

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

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

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

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

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.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

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 world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.