Quotes

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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.

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

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

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.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

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.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

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

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

No crime has been without a precedent.

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.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

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

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

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

Man is condemned to be free.

One crime has to be concealed by another.